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Just What I See | The iPhone Street Photography of Greg Schmigel
Just What I See features the iPhone Street Photography of Greg Schmigel. My photographs take a quick candid look at everyday moments in the lives of the people and strangers that I encounter on the street or in public places. I find beauty in these simple aspects of life; the face of a stranger, the way a person walks, the shadows or reflections of a man or woman or even the simple smile on the face of a passing child. I believe that about 90% of photography is about what the photographer sees. The choice of camera makes up for the rest. My camera of choice is an iPhone. My iPhone just happens to be the camera that's always with me. I don't set out to produce art, per se. Street photography is more of my own personal therapy. I am most happy when capturing these slices of life. Photography for me was not intentional -- yet now, it seems essential. I hope you enjoy the images. Thank you for visiting.
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Greg Mitchell's Photos | SmugMug
Why we take photographs...
Yousef Karsh said
"Because life can only be picture-perfect, never word-perfect.
Because wordesque sounds grotesque whereas picturesque sounds just the way it is.
Because "Smile please" gives us hope that not all's lost in this big, bad world."
A few years ago I did a big project investigating this very issue. I'm not sure it was my best work, but it was without doubt the project that had the most profound effect on me. It was a project filled with melancholy and made me see the world in a whole new way. Some top of head recollections of what I learned...
There are different motivations for taking pictures. Some seek to master a skill others as a kind of creative expression or to capture things that have inspired them. But back then the vast majority of people were mostly taking pictures to document their lives.
If you look through other people's photo albums - you could generally title them "my fabulous life" or "I have lived". People mostly take, and keep, pictures of happy times. You take a photo to capture a present moment, and instantly it becomes a record of the past. Photos are a very social media, we use them to bind us closer to others - to share our experiences, or to capture and relive shared experiences. Our relationship with photography changes through our lives. People typically went through times when they were more creative, times when they were more concerned with documentation.
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Greg Mitchell
rgregmitchell@yahoo.com
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