No family members or photographers inspired me. For me, the most
important photographs are pieces of memory. How people were, how the
city was looking. I'm very intrigued by pictures of decennia old; times
I cannot remember anymore, or times I even wasn't born yet. Once you
start contemplating such pictures, it will reveal a lot about the
lifestyle of the people photographed, the social environment of the city
at these days, and even the role of the photographer, it will reveal
about the youth of people you didn't know by then (parents, e.g.). I
hope that once my pictures may serve this purpose, at least for myself
and maybe for more.
One more thought I'd like to link to this, is that nowadays many more
pictures are taken with the digital camera's than before with the box
camera's. Everyone is shooting everyone. But very little pictures
remain. Half a centry ago, it was common to take an 'official' picture
of people being together: a meeting of a club, a family at sea, the boy
with his girlfriend at home,... Then the people were appearantly very
conscious about the 'historical' purpose of photography. Nowadays, this
is far less common, although at every occasion, almost everyone is
carrying some kind of camera, but none of the pictures will 'remain'.
Groeten,
Vic
- Re: What inspired you? Vic Mortelmans
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