Portraits of my beautiful friends and strangers – roll 1.
(Zero AI – 100% human created content).
Long time no see, my friends and the photoblog visitors. I’ve had a tough two months, and this difficulty continues, even now I am less busy with my job at weekends, but the whole work week is still very abusive and draining my batteries down. I feel that my perception has become empty in recent weeks. It’s empty of content, but I’m sure it’s accumulating somewhere in the dark part of my mind and I store it for a while and one day will splash it out like a geyser, awakened volcano after years of sleep.
But, I never was a complaining person, and even now, when I write these lines of the texts, without a detailed explanation, of what exactly happened, I find myself a seeker of compassion or something like this. I’m sure that these days many people are in a much more difficult situation or are simply standing on the brink between life and death. Our civilization is going through difficult trials and changes, of course, there is some possibility that some of us don’t think so, or learned not to pay attention to what is happening further than 20 km from us. It’s also ok. Some kind of another way to stay mentally healthy.
One day i decided that the next roll of film, loaded to my Fuji GA645 camera will be dedicated to only portraits with with attention or an attitude. The idea was to ask about the portrait, and to to take a candid image. It took close to year to finish this roll. The camera is not always was in my daily camera-bag. Some days i just forget about the project, some days i wasn’t in the appropriate mood to abuse people with my ask for a portrait. So, when i developed this ilford HP5 roll, i found that most of frames were heavily damaged with these white dots. I tried to find some logics, why one frame in the middle of the roll is turned out without the white flakes, but the previous and the next turned out dirty. I have no idea what is happened with this not expired roll developed in the usual way with Kodak HC-110.
Anyway, i finished already the next roll of this project and last weekend I started the third one. More is coming.
Roy Gedalia (Traklin, Pardes Hana).
Eldad (Jaffa beach).
No-name soldier.
Jude and Ido (Traklin, Pardes Hana).
Omer Haviv (Jaffa port).
Moshe (Traklin, Pardes Hana).
Choda (Traklin, Pardes Hana).
Joel Haber (Jerusalem).
Evgenii and Leila (Tel Aviv).
It’s the “passion” you’ve lost in the midst of chaos! I see here your strong ability to catch their thoughts even.
Don’t despair, My friend, we are older now to handle bigger problems.
I’ve lost my passion for this gift we hold in our hands. Well I believe we want what’s best for everyone we meet and still feel helplessness.
Be well, your portraits are perfect example of your talents ❤️
Thank you for the kind words Mary. I do believe that it’s only a temporary problem and it’ll be behind me soon ! Have a great week !
Wonderful to see your real work Victor . I recognized few portrait I knew however missing fabulous people your brother and Tom ;);)
Thank you Naomi. My son will appear in the next series. And i still have to photograph my bro for this series 😉
Ohh great ! I will not miss it ..
hehe sure ! thank you for the support Naomi 😉
Great series of portraits and to be honest, I don’t mind the white flecks at all. They give the images a even deeper ‘substance’ or ‘character’.
Thank you very much Vicki. It’s interesting that the same said me a few of my friends. But as a photographer who took these images i had some vision and these flakes were not planned. I love your description of the “character” they add. 🖤
Great portraits! The white flakes add a nice textured feel. Pictorial photographers like Mortensen used to deliberately add scratches and screen overlays to their prints to add texture, so this reminded me a little of that look.
Thank you for taking a look Stuart. Yes once i saw many prints with scratches on the images, always interested to get what exactly the Artists wanted to express or to add with the “damage”. Most of these prints were looking amazing – thanks to this additional textures.
Great to see you again Victor! Film sometimes throws us a curveball, but these are great portraits in difficult times. I pray for peace 🙂
Thank you Steve. The second roll is turned out clean on the same HP5 from the same batch. Will post them soon.
Peace is what we need. Even the leaders of many powerful countries are galloping from the peace direction.
Great to see your images back on WordPress. Glad you are good, looking forward to more photos.
Thank you very much. I have a few posts already ready with images to continue, just short in time on the posts writing and composing. I hope to post more often in the future 😉
The white flakes are the magic of chemical development 😉 Powerful portrait, I like them.
Hehe good said. Some of my friends, also those who photographed, loved this magic addition 😉 Well, the next roll is clean of these..maybe I have to find another way to add them 😉
thank you Carlos !
Nice pics
Thank you Jasbir