Yesterday a good friend of mine uploaded one of the first pictures from his analog archives he started to scan with a filmscanner he just bought. The picture blew me away. I was looking at another time (probably around 1975). Another era in which I was a small child and still I felt the mood which was present there at just that moment.
Well, at least I think I did. That ain’t important. It shows that photography is part of archiving humanity, culture and evolution. The difference is that at those days only a few people had the possibility to be part of this archiving or the archives would stay in private area’s not visible for others.
Now it’s 2010 and suddenly all this material is available. Old shoeboxes are opened. Old pictures are uploaded to public places and our view on how humanity evolves and culture changes gets more and more clear. It’s amazing.
And due to the technological race in which we are we all can add little pieces to this heritage. We all have digital camera’s. We all share our lives somehow. Either by email or social networks like facebook, youtube, flickr or other media.
This makes me curious on how my pictures will look like in 30 years from now. I don’t know. But its fascinating.
The photographer of this picture is Leo Verton. He gave me permission to use his picture in this post. Find more of his archive on his just started photostream on Flickr by clicking here.
Just another weekend. The photography on the dogshow was a bit dissapointing. The subject I was looking for wasn’t just there. Only people waiting for hours before they could show their dog. Next time better. In november there is a large international dogshow in Amsterdam so I will try again.
