Those portraits are wonderful; really great snapshots of life on the move. Something struck me, though, as I was looking at pictures from all over the world: No one looks happy or relaxed. Everyone looks serious, determined, preoccupied--but no one looks like they're just enjoying themselves. It's actually a little disturbing. I often find that commonalities bind people together. These pictures seem to suggest that we're bound together by the things that pull us apart: worry, tension, isolation, being elsewhere instead of being present. Certainly photography can capture this better than any other medium in terms of immediacy. At the same time, these images show a world that is not necessarily a hospitable place to live.
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Date: Mon, May. 4th, 2009 04:48 pm (UTC)