Liberty square, City center, Timisoara, Romania [map]
On finding yourself in a foreign city…
You might think that you’re going out there to photograph the street, and the way the street looks and feels, but I found that you’re not. What I’ve come to discover is that what you’re really doing is photographing how you feel – the images reflecting what you are looking at when you are in that place, on that street, in that given mood.
In light of that thought, I was afraid. My fear was, that I may find myself there, not feeling anything; that I might let down the influence and lessons of the great photographs I have admired for so long. You know, those images that seem able to peel off the outer layer of reality and offer a glimpse into that which we perceive to exist somewhere beyond the things we can see …to paraphrase Ansel Adams, a some form of an essence of a place, the very thing that makes it feel the way it feels. I needed an “AHA” moment, and nothing short of it. And I did not want to think about the possibility of it not happening.