Nelson Lowhim
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

Yeah I’ve been thinking about this too, this attempt to move away from the garden variety (albeit beautiful ) photo that everyone takes and usually from the same place.

This has led me to think a lot about the camera I carry (iPhone or mirrorless digital) and the photos I take.

I wrote about Killing the Paralyzed Cyclops (actually a few times, almost it’s own genre for me) and I’m still working away from the idea that a photo still has to be similar to the frame that camera obscura introduced to us hundreds of years ago.

I mean, there’s a reason painting has moved away from this singular perspective. Of course, David Hockney has some better words on this matter: mainly that we don’t experience the world this way, so why do we accept it?

This expands our view somewhat, but does it add to our experience? Maybe it’s little more than a poor man’s panorama?

So I’ve been experimenting with not only expanding the idea of breaking out of the single frame (people usually punish you for this as it’s not as aesthetic as they wish).

Here we pull the viewer into the moment

Do the above photos work? I mean this one is beautiful and people like but I pull back and the crowd boos (by reddit upvotes).

So now the experience as we remember it is something I’m thinking on. But this requires things like collages that are harder for me to understand.

Your thoughts?

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