.. title: Photography a solitary art?
.. slug: photography-a-solitary-art
.. date: 2014-10-25 21:14:54 UTC+02:00
.. tags: alone, photography, art
.. link: 
.. description: Photography a solitary art?
.. type: text
.. author: Alexandre Dulaunoy

Is photography a solitary art? Difficult to say but I usually take my best shots
while alone or with other photographers who understand the practise of photography.
The idea of this post came from Bob_ who asked me to take a selfie_. We tried to
take pictures in front of a large mirror in a hotel's lobby.

But photography is time depend, you need time to think about a picture and some time
to represent a picture. The time requirement was not meet for the selfie
but we did overcome the challenge. Sometime you hear that photography is solitary art but
is it really? Thinking about it, it's not the act of being alone but to control time.
You just need a set of people in the same spacetime. Bob_ and I_ tried to be in that
spacetime but the surrounding were obviously much faster than us.

Next time, we will control time. We will get rid of our watches and ride the spectrum of
time with our cameras.

.. _Bob: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bvdkamp/
.. _I: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adulau/
.. _selfie: ./the-difficult-exercise-of-self-portrait.html
.. _selfiehotel: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adulau/15437538459/
.. figure:: /posts/self.jpg

   The Difficult Exercise of Self Portrait, ƒ/6.3, 35mm, selfiehotel_ on flickr