Sothy

So I do not know if I am just flickr-inadequite or what but I could only get the thumbnail of his image.  This was my favorite image out of every ingle photograph I have looked at today.  Between the quality of light and the earthtones I am instantly grabbed.  I feel like this suitcase was placed in someone's backyard and shot quickly- but at a closer glance I am convinced it is more thought out than that.  The camera angle puts us as viewers at eye level with this suitcase- we are supposed to feel it's presence more  so than normal.  The quality of light is not that of a snapshot at all.  The scene is well illuminated which is good because I am interested in the context of this suitcase.  It feels at home- where the image was made and where the suitcase belongs.  

This photograph is part of a story.  It not only gives us the meaning of the encounter or the focal point of the conversation- but it also creates a really nice setting.  We know now that the scene takes place over water on a bridge and this is indirectly important to the story whether the photographer knows it or not.  I also am responding visually to the horizontal ripples and the strong railing versus the vertical elements.  Plus the color seems to be working in a nondescript manner, and the division of space is refreshing.

Again i rebel against Flickr and therefore do not know how to use it.  But this image was interesting to me.  It is expressive in a documentarian way.  The text almost works better with the image- being that we learn a lot about the subject from the text.  But the image really tells us about the photographer; central/slighted/small figure, almost monochromatic, and not interesting on it's own.  That is why it goes with the text so well.  Both aspects of the piece tell us a life story about the model and the photographer.

Raw.  A person with a camera taking pictures- a person with a camera taking pictures.  One is maybe a photographer and the other one is not- or is he/she?  The line is blurred here completely and this image challenges the viewer.  If he doesn't use the strap then why the fuck does he have it on the camera?  Did the person on the left take a picture at the exact time the other person hit the shutter and fired the flash?  If so then a whole other dimension is added to this photograph that is making my head spin in an awesome way but it is too late bye.