Friday 27 February 2009

Assigment #1 - the Beginning

The task of this first assignment was to create pictures that would represent or be inspired by the notion of "beginning" in any sense of that word.
We had 2 week to accomplish this task. Each of us have chosen 3 of his best works and they are posted here.
We kindly invite you to have a look at them by clicking on the link below. Choose you favorite picture and let us know about it by leaving a comment.
Thanks a lot and we hope you will enjoy the outcome.
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The Foreword

We spend endless hours in buses ,trains , planes , waiting rooms. Our reality is composed of constantly changing places and faces. While waiting for the evening performance to come, we roam the streets of yet another city, eating in yet another restaurant or lying in bed in yet another hotel room. After some time, being subjected to all this landscapes, all this information, creates a desire to capture it. Is this desire an attempt to stop this quickly passing time, preserve memories, keep track of people and things passing by in this ever changing landscape ? Or is it that by seeing the differences between this place and the one we will visit tomorrow, we slowly become more curios of the surroundings ?
One way or the other I'm lugging my camera around, everyday and everywhere. Taking pictures of this and that, some of them better then others. I end up with thousands of them. But it seems so accidental, so unfocused, sometimes chaotic.
Perhaps if we look at this same world but through a specific task, subject, with a specific fame of mind, perhaps it will organize and focus this act of snapping pictures.
Perhaps we can challenge each other, inspire to look at the subjects differently, push the creativity in order to frame all those frames a little.
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