Why i am a photographer ?
- Ludovic Lavogez
- 1 févr. 2017
- 3 min de lecture
"Composition must be one of our constant preoccupations, but when it comes to photography, it can only be intuitive, because we are dealing with fleeting moments where relationships are shifting. Time runs out and our death alone catches up with it. The photograph is a cleaver that in eternity captures the moment that dazzled him.
To capture a moment, to live it through the viewfinder, to see myself as a spectator and an actor, are the things I like the most about photography. I decided to take the leap after years as an amateur (in the sense, unpaid), aware that my life revolved around photography for quite some time. It was in a sense inevitable. Spending whole days roaming the streets, scrutinizing people, and waiting to capture the precise moment that will take the picture, it is priceless, and I would not trade this feeling of the desired trigger for anything in the world. The decisive moment, this photographic shooting which only a visionary can have the secret, has marked generations of photographers, an approach by the sensitivity of the artistic, which will have inspired me a lot, humanly speaking.
"Composition must be one of our constant preoccupations, but when it comes to photography, it can only be intuitive, because we are dealing with fleeting moments where relationships are shifting. Time runs out and our death alone catches up with it. The photograph is a cleaver that in eternity captures the moment that dazzled him. "
To capture a moment, to live it through the viewfinder, to see myself as a spectator and an actor, are the things I like most about photography. I decided to take the leap after years as an amateur (in the sense, unpaid), aware that my life revolved around photography for quite some time. It was in a sense inevitable. Spending whole days roaming the streets, scrutinizing people, and waiting to capture the precise moment that will take the picture, it is priceless, and I would not trade this feeling of the desired trigger for anything in the world. The decisive moment, this photographic shooting which only a visionary can have the secret, has marked generations of photographers, an approach by the sensitivity of the artistic, which will have inspired me a lot, humanly speaking.
I'm a photographer because I like that. Because I have the sincere feeling of having been it all my life, and that I would always be, and that it is the only thing of which I can be passionate and of which I would never tire.
I'm a photographer because I still learn every day, it surprises me and despite the years I would always be an eternal student. More than a passion, it is a real way of life, creating links, provoking encounters, memories, and sometimes, if too close to the subject, love or hatred. In short, life!
I would conclude this post with the preface to the biography of a great man, Henri Cartier Bresson, forerunner of street photography, black and white pope in 35mm, and founder of the cooperative agency Magnum:
"The camera is for me a sketchbook, the instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the moment who, in visual terms, questions and decides at once. To "signify" the world, one must feel involved in what one cuts through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, sensitivity, a sense of geometry. It is by an economy of means and especially an oblivion of oneself that one arrives. to the simplicity of expression.
To photograph is to hold one's breath when all our faculties converge to capture the fleeting reality; it is then that the seizure of an image is a great physical and intellectual joy.
To photograph: it is in a single moment and in a split second to recognize a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify this fact. It is putting on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life. "
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