As a kid, my siblings, I used to spent a lot of time playing with each other outside, with no cares in the world. A lot of the images are reiterations of photos of us playing as kids. It is interesting; currently, we’re living in quarantine, so that means that we have a lot of free time. And that free time can be used to “play” and be outside like we used to when we were kids. But now that we have “grown-up,” we tend to stay indoors, focusing all of our time on our phones, laptops, and just doing our own thing. That is not to say that we do not talk or speak to each other, but I do think that technology does make it easier not to enjoy each other’s presence as we used to. However, I could potentially be using technology as an excuse because as you get older, your priorities shift, and you don’t have the luxury to just play with no cares in the world. These photos are flashbacks to a simpler time where we had no worries and could spend our time playing.
I love your sense of light, shadow, and perception in these photographs. You do a great job of capturing this sense of reminiscence of childhood, but at the same time, you capture the disconnect that technology can put in between us. The use of light in your pictures is amazing, both indoors and outside. how the sun illuminates but doesn’t overpower the images of your brother on the balcony and couch. I also love how the light shines in behind your sister allowing her body to form a silhouette. I think it’s interesting that you only chose one picture that had both siblings and every other represents you all individually.
Hey Favour, I think your photos reflect the idea of childhood well and it gives an insight to what kinds of things you did when you are younger that many can relate to such as playing around especially with siblings or other family. In your fifth and sixth photo, I like how the light is coming in from the front and creates a shadow almost rather than an actual form of the person. It is also interesting how you capture motion in your sixth photo as you step off the ledge. You capture the emotions of the people in your photos well and a laid back atmosphere is created.
Favour,
I think you project is so interesting because it captures familial relationships in a way that shows what time together is actually like instead of the posed photo. It makes me think and builds on your photo last week with some of your family sleeping with the posed family photos above. I particularly love the first and second photos. The first in particular I just want to keep looking at. There is something about the composition and how your brother (?) is lying and how his legs are too long for the couch, the second basketball wedged behind him, the couch out in the yard, the houses in the background that make this photo especially interesting, It is a photo that I would expect to see of that couch inside your home, but to have it outside captures such a different feeling. The way he is looking off into the distance along with the compositional elements I mentioned above captures almost a feeling of longing of wanting to be able to play like you once were able to when you were younger. It makes you think about what obstacles are stopping him from doing so, what has changed that makes it so he no longer can “play”?
The part of your second photo that I find the most interesting and that I think captures the theme you are presenting well, is that the image of the “selfie” on the phone is very dim and it is almost impossible to see the face. There is something so haunting about that image, as if the person is fading away in the image. This is also results from not seeing the actual face of the individual at all, but instead just the back of their head. The only way that the viewer can see the face is to look closely at the phone, but there is really nothing there. We look to technology so often, but sometimes it doesn’t provide us with what we really want.