It's a lot of time that I don't update this blog. A lot has happened and a lot is going to happen in my and everyone life.
After a lot of months, I'm here to talk about my last project and about photographic projects in general.
Why did a photographer need to work on his personal projects while is working on his customers' one? The answer is easy, but not banal. A photographer needs to work on his personal projects to keep his creativity alive.
Every photographer starts with different intents, but at the base, there is the need to communicate in a way that makes him happy and allows him to be understood at first from his beloved ones, and only as a second instance to be acclaimed as a genius, or artist or master of the art. Working with his customers, with different grades of creative freedom, allows the photographer to be free to express himself with his camera. The work is a necessity that allows the creative flows to go uninterrupted and without and ties of any patron.
During the second half of 2019, as I went from my first job to the second, I was in need to "talk" about my new routine, the routine of a lot of Londoners that each day, before the beginning of the pandemics, were crowding the tube and all the services of the TFL, to go to work and earn their little bit of freedom, trough their hard work.
The first thought was to use my main camera or one of my film cameras.
The only problem was that in the morning no one is happy t be photographed, and the overcrowded tube isn't a camera-friendly place. I was in need to disappear in the crowd, disguise myself in the ocean of commuters. Looking around me I've noticed that a lot of people, during their commute, if they travel alone, use to read (books or ebooks), listen to the music or see one or two episodes of their favourite series on their smartphones.
Today's smartphones are extraordinary!
Some of them can even shoot raw files and allow good editing with the right editing suite. The smartphone was going to be my weapon of choice. With the headphones on, I was easily confused with someone that was listening to music during the commute, or on the platforms (while I was shooting in "portrait orientation") or viewing his favourite episode of a series (if I was shooting on "landscape orientation").
The result has made me happy: each day I was pushing myself to compose new images, to tell how was that part of my routine. I've started observing more the people around me, trying to understand their mood for the day. I've grown as a photographer? I hope yes: I've ceased to refuse the digital noise if there was not enough light and, at the same time, I've learned to let it go if my time schedule was making me impossible to capture a particular moment.
Could I grow more as a photographer? That's sure. I hope to start again a new project to tell more about the world that surrounds me, and trough that, tell more about me.
The actual project is printed in a limited number of copies if anyone is interested in purchasing it. The actual price is 15£ (18€) shipping included.