Week 37: Perspective

perspective is generally thought of as either a construct that describes a person’s unique psychological state given a particular circumstance, or as a physical orientation of objects in space. In the realm of photographic discovery, both are apropo.

Photography (and art in general) is all about exploration and representation of one’s psychological perspective. We snap a photo, alter it, dress it up or down, and otherwise mangle it because we feel we have to.. because there is something inside of us that sees something in the photographed scene that we feel must be unleashed, experienced, shared. Whether it’s due to nostalgia or a yearning for some future state, we are all drawn to particular subject matter because of who we are, were and want to be (or don’t want to be). We all share in this fervor, and yet are unique in our particular experience of it.

This is why there is an ever expanding amount of space for art, why there is room for so many creative souls to share their work and passions. Nothing we know of can be as varied as the human mind, the human perspective. When applied to reflections on living, reactions to others’ lives, there in no end to the variety of visual representations of perspective.

When we begin to push ourselves to previously undiscovered methods or subjects in art, we are not only challenging the status quo of our body of work, we also challenge our perspective, our vision, our take on the world. Sometimes this is frightening, or disheartening. Sometimes it is exhilarating.

This week, we challenged ourselves, and our fellow momenters, with just such a task. Change your perspective. Photographers were asked to (as described by the ever imaginative Cory):

 Take a picture from a different point of view. Put your camera on

the floor, over your head, or imagine life through the eyes of your

cat, refrigerator, coffee table, street curb. Think of a perspective

that you have never takena picture from and use it to get a

creative shot.

These were the results. Enjoy! 

 

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Kristin – Cory – Rachel - RC

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From our beloved Flickr Group:

 

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Xanthe Berkeley - pink goldfish

 rhonda gibson - keli h – suseij35 

hollyindavis

gis 00 – Maria - redorgray

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