Photographing My Moments
Why do I take pictures? A simple answer is I take pictures simply to be in the moment. On the picture above, you have a clock with time at 4:09:09. After I took the shot the clock turned to be 4:09:10. The time captured on the picture will not be repeated again forever. We will have the same time after 24 hours but it is a totally different time because it is on another day. The moment that I have captured will not be repeated again. That is exactly why I take pictures, to capture moments while I am present in them too. That moment will not repeat because everything evolves and nothing is permanent. Photography helps me to be at that moment since I too will be evolving every second. In Japan's Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, there is a watch that stopped working at the exact time the Atomic Bombe dropped over Hiroshima exploded seventy-four years ago at the end of the second world war. Because the watch stopped working at the exact moment it is now an important exhibit in a ...