Insouciant Memories!

 Life has been good for many of us including myself. When I look the backward for this time, I am always fascinated by the chance we have as a special generation to be witness of such rapid human evolution even though it was not always for the best of humanity and its planet habitat, vegetal and animal. We as a so-call civilizations are highly turbulent people that have an often-deranging behavior in regard of this great universe that we are only beginning to partly understand.

During that period of falsely certitudes that we have developed mainly because of a certain technical advancement (industrialization, scientific discoveries and new methodologies, computer technologies, instant telecommunication, etc.), humanity never has asked itself about his own limitations and about the ones that surrounding them. But now we are so numerous and that we are aware of it, this unconscious brave facade is beginning to collapse almost brick by brick, and moreover the new insecurity doesn't guaranty that reason will finally prevail on the contrary, it seems.

Photography is basically an imperfect regard of humanity even when there is no people presence as the subject of it. It is a cultural expression of the past, the farthest to the most instant one. A kind of visual testimony of the interest of their authors. Every photographic part can be archived, summarize, analyze, and transmitted for future generation of lookers. The very significant of the picture can vary entirely with time and different auditors.

Today we are preoccupied people (at least some of us!) and confused t the same at a point that humanism seems to be very low in the priority list of this society. It is disturbing to have seen the shift from a collective dream with no frontiers where nothing was impossible to a very dark and narrow perspective of survival. Even the act of communication that was the obvious intention of link and reconciliation between us, has become the instrument of division and controversy. The dark side of humanity has taken the lead, and many are look for an emperor instead of a participating republic. The (non?) evolution of the photographic Web sites often illustrate this chaotic change.

Make your point, at first, can be understandable but it must be done with an open mind to be able to reunite at this very point of view the assemblage of all the others especially when you cannot really ignore them in this crowded world.

Is the selfie photo planet already a think of the past? May be or maybe not. We were told that humans are social animals (by definition), but in a perceptive overpopulation situation, what can be expected from individual behavior? Photography is also a social act of visual expression but now does the people are still willing to be curious and agree to not only tolerate but also to try to understand the differences? And this is where my "insouciant" memories leave place to apprehended worries.

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© Photos Daniel M: OM-D E-M5/ED 12-50mm; GX85/12-32mm OIS; G95/100-300mm II