The PhotographerJune 2006 Recently I went to a gig of a band called "Architecture in Helsinki" that was really amazingly good and I was dancing and singing and really enjoying it. At that gig I noticed a girl who was standing in front of the stage taking photographs, during the whole entire gig she never looked at the band once! She just took photos of them and looked at the photos on the screen of her camera. It was like she had captured the band in her camera, a miniature version, that was even better than the real thing. It made me think about how the distances between people has become greater with all the "communication technology". It is so easy to send a text message or an email, that people don`t see each other as much as they used to. You send a couple of text messages back and forth and you feel like you have been talking to someone, but it is a much much lower level of communication. I think people rely too much on technology to save their memories also, that girl thought it was more important to get photographs of the band than to see the actual gig, I cried when I realised that my laptop ate half of my photographs from Paris, we all do it... It`s almost as if people wont believe your stories unless you have photos to back it up. Or that the experience wasn`t as good because you don`t have the photos to remember it by. |
