The Female Gaze Across Time
“Who is a good photographer?” we may wonder. The reality is that a good image, a good photograph, is like a beautiful poem. The elements are all set around us. We may have seen them every day, but we take them for granted. When an artist puts them into an image, a poem, a photograph, it brings us an “awe” as we ask why we hadn’t seen it in this perspective, in this grandeur. For a photographer, the camera is the tool. But how much the tool is, is not what matters; it's how you use it. As with words, it's our emotions, patience, perspective, skill, observation, passion, and enthusiasm that come alive. In just a click, a moment in history is seized into a fraction of a second. Never again will you be able to create the same moment. No matter how much you try, it will never be the same. The best photographers find joy and amazement in the finest details in what they see and capture. Their fascination for the details comes alive in the photographs they click too. As a humble beg...