It’s been a while since I last discussed genre preferences, global creative waves, and all that. For about two and a half years, I’ve been riding a global reportage wave that influences all the genres I photograph. Roughly speaking, what I call a global creative wave is a lens through which I perceive reality, a way of looking at the world.
That is, if I’m filming a report about some event or activity, I see the world from a certain angle, use a certain shooting technique, tricks. All of this is good.
But if I want to shoot graphics, I unconsciously use the same shooting methods as for a reportage.
If I photograph the street, it’s also through a reportage prizm. Everything goes through the reportage lens.
Night views of a place are also filmed according to reportage principles...
And all because, at this moment in time, I see the world from this angle.
But. This year I’ve felt a decline in this reparative mindset and I don’t yet understand where I’m heading.
I can assume that I’ll be back on the graphic wave for a while again. (Yes, even the report will have a graphic twist, using different techniques and searching for patterns.)
At the very least, I would like to return to this wave, as I am currently drawn to this world, this frequency, this global creative wave, this principle of seeing the world.
...Pinkhasov divides photography into two global worlds: narrative (meaning, plot) and patterned (form, metaphysics). There’s something to this; we’ll need to apply it to our own interpretation.