Friday walk through Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem ii
just a few minutes before i started with this continuation of the previous post from my Friday walk through Mahane Yehuda market, I stumbled upon a very interesting and actual article-opinion – A Disturbing Trend in Photography written by Neal Rantoul. to be serious – this “must to have” created not only by some modern critics and “Art Curators” but also by SEO Analysts – right now i have the message saying the following: “The text contains 136 words, this is below the 300 word recommended minimum. Add more useful content on this topic for readers”. WTF !!! (i’m sorry).
anyway – something positive that i have to write about the last picture in this series. you can pay attention that this the bottom one is “a little bit” stands out from the whole two posts series. they are asked me to take their picture. and even portraits of each one separately. and a few groups more groups of young people just stood aside and waited for their turn. i was patience like one who created this BARDAK (mess) during short seven days, but i asked them – WHY ? you all have the newest fancy smartphones, so take your portraits by yourself in the usual “Instagram” way. and i got this encouraging answer – we want these professional images that you take with your real camera. should i add something else ???
enjoy the market madness…
thank you and welcome to visit again…
Hey Victor, i also read this article Neal Rantoul too. Indeed he lost many, too many, words for a fact which nervs me too. People take fotos and explain after what the photo shall show, preferential with many words. But not their intention why the shoot a photo or a series of photos. I think and thats the point of his contribution too, a photo should outstanding and telling the story to the viewer by itself. Otherwise it make no sense to take photos in anywhere. I hallway look at first to the photo and ask by my self: “What want the picture and of course the photographer tell me? What is the message of the photo?” just in the second look i watch to the title. When both relate and i am fixed, than i have an interest to know the story around. I know this is very careless!
But be sure, i wouldn´t read your blog when i have no interest to watch your photos and to read your stories around. You contribute it exactly how it should be and i like it. will see forward 🙂
Hey Burkhard! Agree with your addition and happy that you love to visit my blog site.
Agree totally with the ‘long!) article you pointed out and your series demonstrate so well what he could have said in a few words :::: not to much chat and better photos!! You obliged..as always.
Thank you Paula. Last year i forced to reject a few invitations for publishing in a magazines because of the same reason – they all ask for the long written body of work. Very strange statement of photography magazines. Anyway – thank you very much for the “long” reading and for the kind words !!
Your images are wonderful, Victor — they transcend the need for any language. I could almost hear the cacophony of the traffic and the voices of the people all around me, like a swarm of humanity! I think this is the strength of photography: It can tell a story in a nanosecond. (As the saying goes, “A picture is worth one thousand words.”)
But the phenomenon Neal Rantoul describes sounds more like an unfortunate side-effect of social media and the “selfie” generation. I wonder if some of these young people are so used to being the center of attention that they can’t step out of the spotlight even to show their own work. At least it has certainly seemed that way in some of the portfolios I’ve reviewed. (I ask a question about an image and get a long story about their social life … *sigh.*)
It’s too bad this SEO and description stuff is becoming a prerequisite for all photographers, though. If I got a note like the one you describe in the first paragraph I’d be very frustrated too! The good news is that no one really reads anything on the internet, so you can write whatever you like and it will still be ok. Maybe even tell a story about your social life. 🙂
thank you for taking a read even it wasn’t about my social life :-))
i appreciate your opinion and hope to see you again in my pages and posts.
for me photography is first of all and the bla-bla (even with some philosophical intention is not too important and if i write something – it’s more for me or some part of the process plus technical details (cos i have a lot of questions how and when)
Very nice glimpse of Jerusalem, still one the places in my bucket list of travel destinations:)
You will love this place for sure !!
Our previous trip… it seems you are ahead of us…
so you visited there ?!? 😉