pagespicsA Portrait of Huang Dao
Posted on May 16, 2024
I have a few ‘projects’ on the go at the moment. They are slow going, but a new camera has given a bit of a boost to the images I am capturing on bike rides. The OM5 fits perfectly into my front pannier and is quick to access when needed. Traveling off the beaten path reaps rewards. I found the lady shown below sitting on the doorstep of her home, surrounded by family. She is 104 years old, and her name is Huang Dao.
It’s all in a name.
Names are quite salient to this blog post. I have rarely stopped to ask for someone’s name when taking Street Photographs, as the images are often captured quickly whilst on the fly. Looking back through old photos brings up a number of questions. Who were these people, and where are they now? Finding a little back story to each person may be a way to add depth to a project. Definitely food for thought!
Keep clicking,
Chris
Faces and the Portrait
Posted on February 13, 2019
All images in this article are my own, as I lack the rights to publish work from the artists discussed.
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag (1977)
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