Transparency, a photo from Kotor, South

Photographer's Note

There is a sense of belonging that men have in living in a village or a city where his ancestors have lived for countless generations. Behind closed windows there exist separate lives, yet when they come out in the open, in the village square or the neighborhood cafe, familiarity breeds a kinship that makes them transparent. One may imagine that the opacity that exists behind shuttered windows in cosmopolitan cities, by contrast, extends to the faceless flow of men and women on their impersonal streets.

Nonetheless, as events in Europe, the Balkans, Rawanda, or in the Indian subcontinent at the time of its birth pang and beyond have shown us, the identity established on account of cohabitation over generations can evaporate in a matter of days.

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sidstakes (772) 2007-06-21 11:42

Very classy subjective depiction of the annonimity that is replete in city life...in this photograph the juxtaposing of the two characters...in this case a man walking away on to his own errand and that woman reading the book and being by herself...the cafe where chance meetings take place....very interesting indeed...
And a beautiful touching note Animesh, something to think about really!:))
Regards,
Siddhartha

PS: one question: why use 3200 film in the day??

michiels (4170) 2007-06-21 14:07

hello Animesh,

This is a very special photo, you can't stop looking at it, and everytime you see another little detail. I like the high grain, it is perfect here. Also the position of the man almost out of the frame couldn't be better ! A masterpiece.
greetings, inn

KevRyan (22956) 2007-06-24 7:39

Hi Animesh - I must admit I'm in a quandry overt his one - visually i absolutely delight in the man right leaving the frame and the counterpoint across the image of the woman reading but then I feel there is something missing in the space between them - the gap is just too wide and too empty......then one can look at it in terms of narrative and the visual space recedes against the march of meaning......thirdly I look at it through your eyes .....not your eyes but my eyes and with my belly and my attention is on the promised food and the mystery which awaits beyond the enticing sign........it's lunchtime...maybe that is accounting for my new fixation with your image......

bw Kev

Furachan (0) 2007-06-28 22:11

Another classy, ageless shot, Animesh like you do so well. Kev brings up an interesting point about the yawning gap between man-right and woman-left. I think this is a subjective matter, and I might even add that the wider the gap, the more powerful the shot...
Best,
Francis