Toni Ahvenainen
Two worlds
Week 9, Saturday
Most of my daily routines happens in familiar places and while my photography happens there too it’s sometimes challenging to find new things to photograph. It feels like with every photograph it becomes harder and harder to come up with new pictures from same places (didn’t I claim something else earlier..). You would be surprised to see how close locations of each picture are to another. For example, there are at least four other pictures taken within 50 meters of this place. So I’m naturally very happy that I could actually squeeze one more picture from that same route what we use with Aura when go to grocery store. Not that it gives any benefits to photo itself.
I firmly believe that good photograph should have some context or it should tell something – otherwise it’s just picture without meaning or a technical study. Only the picture is not enough, but neither is the story. That’s the main reason why I see the effort of writing something about every picture. In a sense, taking a picture and writing something about it is an exercise which will force me to interpreter my own pictures (and hopefully helps me to find my own context). But even if I write about the pictures, there are things I don’t want to expose. I feel there is sensitive gray area what should be explained and what should be leaved unsaid. If you explain too much you’ll destroy meanings. Still you need to show direction of interpretation. It’s these subtle meanings I would love to create with photography. Fusing together what is visually on top and what is hidden in undercurrents of sub-conscious.
Year of the Alpha – 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com
Two worlds
Week 9, Saturday
Most of my daily routines happens in familiar places and while my photography happens there too it’s sometimes challenging to find new things to photograph. It feels like with every photograph it becomes harder and harder to come up with new pictures from same places (didn’t I claim something else earlier..). You would be surprised to see how close locations of each picture are to another. For example, there are at least four other pictures taken within 50 meters of this place. So I’m naturally very happy that I could actually squeeze one more picture from that same route what we use with Aura when go to grocery store. Not that it gives any benefits to photo itself.
I firmly believe that good photograph should have some context or it should tell something – otherwise it’s just picture without meaning or a technical study. Only the picture is not enough, but neither is the story. That’s the main reason why I see the effort of writing something about every picture. In a sense, taking a picture and writing something about it is an exercise which will force me to interpreter my own pictures (and hopefully helps me to find my own context). But even if I write about the pictures, there are things I don’t want to expose. I feel there is sensitive gray area what should be explained and what should be leaved unsaid. If you explain too much you’ll destroy meanings. Still you need to show direction of interpretation. It’s these subtle meanings I would love to create with photography. Fusing together what is visually on top and what is hidden in undercurrents of sub-conscious.
Year of the Alpha – 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com