It was only natural for me to go back to my unpublished pictures and see
if I can do a collage, perhaps representing various attitudes or life moments
exhibited by women I have photographed in city streets. Pensive, celebrating,
tender, forceful or resilient, these attitudes represent the places I have been. In a
funny way, I often think of a city, or even a country through a street picture of
its people rather than the city center, its museum, beaches or tropical
forests.
As I stated on the opening page of my blog, architecture and
surroundings do not attract me as a photographer; just people do.
Here are six pictures, from 5 US and European cities, most
taken in 35mm, some negatives from a few years back and scratched. The fifth one is among my favorites from a “texture” point of
view as it was taken with a rare 1948 Industar-22 Soviet lens made in Kazan. The
uncoated glass has a mind of itself as to how the picture will come out, and
capturing a moment with a 75 year old lens is like time travel, this time going
back.
March 7, 2014
© Vahé Kazandjian, 2014
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