This image is from Jerry who, with his wife Sheryl, took TT and I to Brooklyn Park Blossom festival a few weeks ago. I like seeing this sharing of technology in public places.
The photo shows two men looking at a digital photo on the camera, just after the shot had been taken. I like the intimacy - looking at a small image they lean in close. They are sharing a particular view. They are looking at an image of something, able to refer back immediately to the ‘reality’it represents simultaneously. They can look back and forth. Or maybe it was a fleeting mment captured and they look again at the things that were one way a moment ago, and now are not.
It interests me the way technology paves the way for new social opportunities. People talk about events as they are happening as well as after. I think it’s great!! I think people are drawn into experiencing things in additional ways - having conversations about things as they happen. And this makes us all more AWARE I think.
Digital cameras have the potential to make photography more democratic. If we want to, we can share the images taken of our subjects straight away. If we want we can ask them if the photo is OK - we can delete it at their request. (We don’t have to of course; but this is now possible.) So it is possible for photographers to immediately relinquish some of their power over the image if they wish.
This ability to look straight away at the image also allows us to review things as they are going on - so that we both participate in something, but also step outside it at the same time - we are all becoming researchers, collecting data. (So much bloody data.)
