Forever Young! (the nostalgic era)

Despite its obvious retro apparence, the Olympus Pen-F is an highly sophisticated digital camera
  that mimic the mechanical photo gear era.

 It is a FB contributor (See the World) Leigh that inspire me to choose that subject about our search for eternal youngness. I must add that Leigh have associated the musical therapy to stay young than ever in our mind and that inspire me that song from Alphaville. With the aging of the occidental population, the nostalgic trend is taking more and more a major part of our mediatic life. All historic eras are intertwined into a past-present-future way of life where history had no really important role to play, we must add. Yes, we celebrate remembering things and people but only to refuge ourselves in our own fixed time capsule-cocoon.

No place for nostalgia when we are looking for new urban spaces to develop!

What can be illustrate this nostalgic trend is certainly all these pictures that are venerating every artifact of the past available. Old houses, old garments, old cars, old cameras, let's name it ad nauseam... But the funny thing about this pseudo-interest, is that on a parallel course, we are destroying about anything including our own planet in the name of consumerism. An odd contradiction but a very human one by nature! Individualism seems to have conduct us to a dead-end issue. Flower power have been replaced by the hatred (and gun) power well illustrated into our libertine "showcase" and our social media fevers.

Forever young is also a dream by itself. The dream that we can stop the effect of time if not reverse it at least in appearance. Sure, every clever person will understand the fallacy of this dream becoming a reality. But again, cleverness is not a very popular quality at this precise moment of humanity. Even many entertaining’s has been confined to auto-repeated stereotypes that are reassuring for the spectators.

There are only the young people that are really young but for these ones, we don't care to listen them and give them a legitimate place for their aspirations and their experimentations. Yes, we, the older ones, are very far from the 1969 Woodstock folly or, are we still there? That is the question, my friends!

Photos Daniel M : Olympus OM-D E-M5 II / M.Zuiko ED 12-40mm F2.8 Pro; Fujifilm X-S10 / Fujinon XF55-200mm R LM OIS