Images of My Thoughts

Each pair of eyes of photographers is unique.  The idea of seeing the 3 dimensional but capture it into the 2 dimensional while reinterpreting the image just really fascinates me.  Photographs now a days are never the exact interpretation of the truth.  The framing, the subjects, the alterations of the image, and the context within the series of images bring photography into a level of beyond the surface of the world, perhaps, it is a level of revealing the inner qualities of the world from the perspective of the photographers.

This is the reason why I love photography so much.  It has become a communication mechanism between the people who see the photographs as well as the people and the photographers.  Furthermore, this communication is not restriction by any kind of barriers; it is a communication of the minds.

One of my goals in photography is not just to produce beautiful images; but to produce meaningful images that can be aesthetically pleasing.  I believe that with thoughts behind the images that I produce, even if people do not see the thoughts, they can sense it, hence, making my images stronger.

This triptych below was one of my projects in my class.  Three of them show the isolation of the space and the loneliness of the subjects; yet, these images were taking in a chain grocery store, a town park and a local high school, respectively.  All three places do not give the vibe of loneliness or isolation when I was there, but in order to accomplish what I previsualized, I was able to alter the environment into a one that I desire.

I believe that the way people live have become more and more degraded as the convenience and the popular trends embedded into people’s minds. People have forgotten their basic instincts and their abilities to act and react. We are numbed by the injections of laws and rules that without a set of rules we cannot function. The problem is that we never question those rules.

And because of those rules, we have stopped challenge ourselves to become more than what is socially acceptable and because of that, the art of individualism is lost. The most common interpretation behind the Japanese proverb today, ” See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” is usually describe the people who do not want to be involved into situation and therefore, they turn their heads the other way to avoid the confrontation and wrong doing.

This following image tells exactly the opposite of the proverb. We need to see the bad influences around us and be aware those things so we that those influences will not be affecting the way we should live. We need to see the rules and decide for ourselves that whether they apply or not, no more following the what is popular but know what exactly what you want.

Of course, it is always easier to say than to do. But, this is just an encourage for people that we should be more than a puppet of society and start to become individuals.