A photographic interest

 Videography is everywhere and people love to follow the animated pictures and listening the sound variations of any kind. Static imagery seems to be relegated to an illustrating status for operating manual and bestseller books (caricatural speaking!). But there is always somehow, somewhere, some among us that are still preferring to do photography and share their pictures around the Web planet. And maybe because photography appears to be more reliable to prolong our subject and context impression, a kind of a more durable visual memory.

Everything is changing and everything stay the same! It is a known contradiction throughout our small human history. The actual pandemic frenzy situation is no exception of this affirmation. Although some would like to turn back to the past "before Covid-19" context, there is no way to return in this world of frantic individual and unconscious consumerism with absolute physical security. In fact, it has been never the case but to be more conscious of it has been, may be, one of the true legacies of the present pandemic crisis.

In the history of traditional photography, many had predicted death of the medium and its eventual replacement by all kind of cinematographic counterparts. But a "stop" and registered picture has nothing to do with a constant flux of imagery. It is a rare testimony of a freeze moment of this universe that can be observed, analyzed and compared to others and even criticized by the looker. In fact, each picture has its own history to discover and to share.

It often begins by choosing an interesting angle of view for your intended photographic subject. Already a discriminating process have started in your mind. Photography is not a fully automated and spontaneous creative way to register imagery. It is a very selective medium due not only to its technical limitations but mainly by the photographer intervention in using it. The act and the art of photography are very subjective ones. But the absence of objectivity does not necessarily mean the full vacuum of an authenticity research. It is up of its author to cope with his/her own integrity about the subject treatment.

Many photographers are intuitive ones (like me). It is not to say that the technical photographic point of view is not important, but they are simply prioritizing the subject before the medium. Or better, they subjugate the medium to the subject. Cameras are beautiful and complex imagery tool which is full of already configured (programmed) behavior by their manufacturers and they represent in a certain way a specific vision of this world. As a creator, you may have to "overpass" these technical ways of producing pictures and try to get a more original point of view of your subject.

Still imaging or classic photography is, even today, a perfect visual art medium to express our concerns about our changing world as for others art medias such as painting, sculpture or book writing. And there is always a photographic interest to do so...