I heard a phrase somewhere on social media that fog is on trend this year... apparently, I match the fashion. Although it is strange that a natural phenomenon can interest a large audience in some way at once.
Rain is a trend for me this year...I don't know why.
But as never before, I take a lot of photos during precipitation.
I also came across an interesting terminology that photography is divided into two types: narrative and pattern.
In a narrative there is a plot, a meaning, an event....that is, this is my reporting wave.
Pattern photography is about shape, lines, geometry, texture, and chiaroscuro...the content is not important and the plot is missing. This is a graphic wave.
It turns out that I've been switching between two waves lately: narrative (reportage, as I call it) and pattern (graphic).
These divisions are most vividly felt in street photography.
I shoot in both ways, but there's more plot and meaning now than before.
I looked at the photos from five years ago, read the same posts, and came to the conclusion that at that time I didn't even understand what a reporting wave was.
I made pictures based on feelings and reactions.
It's about the same now as it was then...but there is one more point...reportage is a message for publication.