Dak'Art2016 Monday, 22
I don't believe that photography is ever objective - it is always going to be subjective. -Martin Parr
A gaze is a look. It refers to way we things. It is not simply about seeing, but also, and chiefly, about the way look at things. Another word for kits 'point of view', which supposes a position from which we capture the world surrounding us. One recognizes a photographer by her/his gaze - their style. The gaze represents both a position and a point of view. It can reveal the political, cultural and social attitudes that enable the viewer to locate the producer in an image. -SN
Just Ask! From Africa to Zeitgeist. Edited by Simon Njami. 2014
they tell me i look good, but most of the time i wished the ground would open and swallow me up. though, how could i talk about this very state of mind. them, they are all much younger than me - thirty, forty years. but i am neither a teacher nor a social worker; i just share life with them. their sparkling hope for a future of prosperity and their relentless need to see the western world make me feel ashamed of my already advanced wisdom about things how they are as well as having had the advantage of boundless traveling during my whole life. how can i even dare to be part of that wonderful energy they display - my life almost done in a privileged way. an indulgence of wealth kept and displayed within my body. nevertheless, i look for a communication on a level playing field, not being too schoolmasterly (once i recommended taking pictures not using flash what came out to be an ouroborus... it is me not them who is shy of taking pictures displaying too many objections of a disturbing knowledge), but unlearning and trying to understand. Tuesday, 2
come and help us... my shop neighbour's workers invite me to join while they are unloading their container. their way of talking, they don't mean it, of course, just to include me somehow and keep theimselvers in mood shouting at each other..