It's a lost "art" now a days, there are many facets that can help one become a better photographer or an artist, but I think developing as your own individual is something that is often over looked. If we all liked or did the same things, wouldn't it all be pretty boring?
When I am out and about with my camera, its like I'm stepping out into a different world. I walk by frames and subjects, and ideas that can either grow or simply vanish before they had a chance.
Sometimes I only have a few seconds to take a shot, all to define what it is that I see or feel. When I get back home and look at the end result , I either succeed or fail and that's determined on whether I keep the shot or throw it away.
A friend commented last week that she was curious to know what I was feeling or doing at the time of a particular shot. During this one attached below, I was walking by a hair salon while listening to a new song by Lady Gaga, my impression is they probably had her in mind when they created this window display.
I really enjoy Lady Gaga, many people accuse her of sensationalism, but my connection seems to stem on her ability to throw it all out there. She makes being weird kind of cool, and lets face it, you look around, everything is weird really. People who don't believe their weird, are probably even more weird than they realize and just suppress themselves as a way of fitting in.
I guess what I'm getting at is, I'm actually weird, although I'd like to also add harmless :-) so people don't start avoiding me.
All my life I've often felt different, always disconnected by what others define as being normal. There is a sense of loneliness that does stem from that disconnect, you try to be that person that people want you to be, but it becomes a balancing act of not hurting people that love you, and finding some sense of happiness.
So to break it down this image is about that, the weird vagueness and portrayed beauty of a "Lady Gaga" separated by the lonely reality of normality; created by my "individualism".
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| From Photographs by Francesco E |
