adam as a photographer sees the world the most similarly to me, and takes photos the way i want to take them. i especially like his work without people in it, because it almost all has the presence of a person without capturing that individualās body. tldr he captures human presence well.
this series he did (linked) of his parentsā long time apartment when they were moving out has always stuck with me. and he has a book of photos from the UN right before it underwent renovation called international territory that i am obsessed with (if anyone wants to buy the book for meš«Ø)
Dec 9, 2024
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Iām a big art lover but photography is one of my blind spots so I love this whole thread for recs!!
Bresson was always my dadās favorite photographer and I love his use of cheeky humor and the composition of his images. The historian in me loves peering back into daily life in such a candid way, they almost feel like stills from a Goddard movie.
Apr 9, 2025
i spent 2 months in Istanbul, Turkey at the end of 2020. Since covid was still about I spent the 2 months just wandering the old and new cities with a camera in hand. I took this one at a time when I was greatly obsessed with Jeff Wallsā photo āThe Destroyed Roomā and how I would love to recreate something of that sort. One night I was on Istiklal (one of the busiest promenades in the city with shops and restaurants and a trolley that rolled thru the middle of it) and it was time to pray the evening prayer, yet I was too far from a mosque (surprisingly) that I needed to pray out in the street. My cousin and I put our jackets down in preparation of making our prayer, when right as we were about to start, two men outside of their restaurant told us there was no need and invited us inside their establishment to pray in there. They led us down to their basement, which funny enough, was slightly flooded, and the spot in which they set for us to pray, was an old wooden table top floating above the leaking water. Looking around the basement, at the far wall, were these stacked chairs, tables, and junk, possibly leftovers from a recent renovation. And there was this obscure painting sitting perfectly in the middle of it all. Two Arabic letters painted on the canvas which Iād noticed in many other places in Istanbul, yet never really understood the meaning behind. And as my cousin went to pray first, on the floating piece of wood, I couldnāt help but think of Jeff Wallsā photo and how reminiscent the composition, colors, and overall optics were to this junk in the basement. I took one single photo and was happy with it. And as much as I love the work itself, the story behind it is my favorite. Itās always the first that comes to mind when someone asks what my favorite photo I took is.
Thanks for this ask! Always love sharing this. š
Jan 6, 2025
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as we all (pi fyi users) know, being into shit is cool.
iāve been thinking about how in the early days of facebook rather than liking pages you would ābecome a fanā of them and i just love that verbage. so sweet and precious
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i said that so smoothly and confidently and wasnāt weird at all
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itās nice to have a forced walk in the morning before work and itās not really of shame if youāre in love
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