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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/23/2007
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Exactly! Now, that image is exactly what I have in mind! All those stories, all those people, the objects, the interactions, the crossings of each other's ways, the isolation in anonymity, even the produced dirt and noise... well, that's kind of "repulsive" to many, but to me it starts having a deeply human aspect.
It's much like accepting that a relation to nature can be achieved at some forest or garden or something, but this is easy. The much more difficult relation to human beings, to real persons with all things we perhaps don't like on them, can only be achieved in such places like you depicted. I think that big cities, where so many different people get directly confronted with each other, are perhaps the biggest producers of anything that harms the environment, but also the best place for a quite real and practical lessons of living together somehow. We don't find the latter in those "beautiful" villages, say, on the Alps, or somewhere else. (I know what I'm talking about since I lived for some time in such a "romantic beatiful place" in Switzerland. The place turned not beautiful at all, considering the fact that I was "inspected" all the time because of my long hair! ;-))
So being eager to live "in nature" is missing the real possibility to confront with the different and learn not only to tolerate it, but to accept it and respect it. Perhaps it brings fights and argues, but at least we have the possibility to cope with the different in cluttered cities.
I think that's what a city means to me, and thus I try to somehow get that view of things in photography.
Now I go for your image!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 9/22/2007
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Hi Nick,
Please have a look at this image.
http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1001514
I think you might agree that I seemed to be going through the same thing that you are describing above. I do understand the fascination with city clutter. I suppose it all comes together as "city life" somehow. There are little stories in every section of a city street image.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/20/2007
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For some strange reason, Andre, I got completely converted some while ago. While in the beginning I was interested heavily for emptiness in street photos, at some time I started being addicted to that typical cluttering up in cities.
One reason might be that I have more and more the feeling that a cluttered up image will allow the spectator to see more than I saw on the scene, since such scenes are so full that I don't really perceive everything when I press the shutter.
Another reason might be also that such images, full of things and objects in a city, do still contain some kind of emptiness but it is more subtle. Much like observing all from the very isolated point of view of the photographer. Then we don't show some empty scene itself, but we induce emptiness since the eyes of the spectator see that very moment of time, when the scene was captured, but not being a part of the scene - just like the position of the photographer him/herself.
And the third reason might be that kind of abstruseness that such a scene contains when it is frozen in time.
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 9/20/2007
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Hi Nick,
I understand much better what your intention was now. I think I missed the point a little on first viewing.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/19/2007
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Thank you very much again, Ahmed, for the nice comment. I'm eager to post some more of that kind, but let's see what will be next.
Cheers,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/19/2007
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Yes, exactly, Andre! This one goes in a completely oppsite direction trying to make some discussion out of that kind of "clutter" - as a main representant of everyday chaos.
For the time being I am quite in this kind of photography - busy, full, chaotic - trying to somehow discover its own character. Perhaps something not as creative - rather documentary of dizzyness? ;-)
Thank you very much for the detailed comment and the open mind exhange!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/19/2007
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Thank you, Erland!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/19/2007
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¡Gracias mucho por las palabras entusiásticas, Alicia!
Todo el la mejor,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/19/2007
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Yes, Dario, the person in the black suite matches the atmosphere quite perfectly, since his outfit is exactly that of the many brainless robots working in some of the fields of economy, and not being really able to think, but rather chewing the same old crippled doctrines over and over again. They feel "nice" of course! ;-)
Thanks a lot for the detailed comment and the generous rating.
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/19/2007
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The attachment! :-D
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Wires clones away after Marcelo's idea |
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/19/2007
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No era una antena, Marcelo, sino que parece una antena. La calle donde estaba parado mentía cerca de 2 metros de más alto que la escena capturada.
Uní la misma imagen con los cables reproducidos apagado (tan bueno como podría hacer que) y parece mejor ahora. Agradece mucho por el comentario agradable y el consejo.
Nick
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Ahmed Ismail
{K:19853} 9/14/2007
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A superb street shot!! I like the red floor and the meteor artifacts, which makes the image very different from a normal street shot! The people in the image going about their everyday lives add to the image too. Its a great capture, Nick!
Regards, Ahmed
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Andre Denis
{K:66327} 9/7/2007
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Hi Nick,
From an artistic/creative POV I much prefer the "Approaching Like Ghosts" images. Mostly because they are not as "busy" and isolate those ballon type objects so that we can concentrate on them. Also, as you mention, there is a lot of clutter type detail in the foreground and in other areas.
Andre
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Erland Pillegaard
{K:34147} 9/5/2007
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Good shot
erland
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 9/5/2007
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Impecable imagen!!!
Estupenda edificación, perspectiva, imagen!!!
Felicitaciones!!!
PD Gracias por tu tiempo y tus sabios consejos!!!
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Dario Stefani
{K:4938} 9/4/2007
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Another beautiful surreal vision..love the presence of people,i think you reach your intent and the shot suggest what your words perfectly explicate.It would be great if they were all elegant as the first one,isn't it?
Great shot Nick
7/7
dario
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Marcelo Berraz
{K:12906} 9/4/2007
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Buena vista aérea amigo!!Saludos.Molestan un poco los cables y se dispersa el motivo, pero es "tu vista".M.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/4/2007
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Many many thanks, Simone!
Nick
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Simone Tagliaferri
{K:28180} 9/4/2007
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Bella e surreale.
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