That's the story about photography as a way of seeing the world of one of the friends of mine.
Around
quite long ago I met a girl – she was a friend of a friend of mine. We were 15
or something – anyway, we were equally
young, enthusiastic and amazingly obsessed with the world around. So, we were
keeping in some pretty abstract touch for a couple of years, during which the
girl steadily discovered that she had quite a talent for photography – she was
doing some quite special photos with quite nothingness for a camera. When I was
17 and had a need in making some photos, I rememberedabout that girl of mine,
and we met, and she took my mother’s camera stand, and outside of my house with
her portable camera took some quite breathtaking pictures which I heartily love
even now.
So after I
had the whole photo shoot to be adored, followed everything she was doing for
some time, and got really excited, I said something like “hey, whatever and
however crazy will be the idea for your next shooting, I would be happy to
participate”. I suppose it was weird at the time since we barely met before and
spoke with regularity of every half of the year.
Nevertheless,
the next summer she colored my face, went out of the city and created the whole
new world out there with a piece of white tissue, three girls and a camera she
borrowed.
After that we were meeting quite often, pretty much - every time we were inspired with something and wanted to share it with the world. Some time ago I
fell for “Hurts”, so we made black-and-white photos with the body of my camera
and the girl’s zenit lens.
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Two years
ago it was music of Lana del Ray, and the story with this shooting is quite special, because we were allowed to stay in the very posh restaurant with our camera before the official opening. We were boasting a lot that time about how it was ours exclusively.
The same year
the girl bought her very own camera with her very own lenses. We celebrated it
by making photos in my father’s room. She was shooting from wardrobe – her new
lens was fixed and that was the only way to get my face into the picture altogether.
Don’t ask – it was great anyway.
This year we
made Princess Leia shooting, which was a lot on my Facebook and which made lots
of people think I’m really weird. The girl was making my make-up, she drew the
picture of Darth Vader, she cooked cupcakes and improvised me a skirt out of
the piece of white tissue which has already been mentioned. Couple of weeks ago we made the most hipster and amazing set of pictures on a parking place of a big supermarket, and had a great fun in the meantime, being carried around in shopping carts.
Through all the years we spent together drinking milk creams, getting to locations, choosing inspiring topics and shocking people around, the girl became a really close friend of mine. We were making makeup in my car, sneaking into places we were not supposed to be, improvising, creating, having great deal of fun and nice cup of tea after every single meeting. And through all this years she never stopped surprising me.
There is
something in the way she sees the world through lenses – something about light
shadows, colours, air and god knows what else, but she makes her pictures breathe.
She supported me a lot in all the
ventures I went through lately, and I’m taking a chance and all these pictures
to tell her once again that she has been such an inspiration and breath of
fresh air for me through these years; that her talent has grown to be something
truly beautiful; that the way she sees the world around is astonishing.
We had
quite of a story, which, however much I’ve tried to cover it, is impossible to be
told at once, so I stop here with that video we made quite a time ago and which
proved to be really hard to find.
When we sleep from Antennasgriga on Vimeo.
Enjoy!
With lots
of love,
