“A photograph isn’t necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It’s more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I like most about photography is the moment that you can’t anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected” – Martine Franck
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Compositions:
1. Girl on the bottom of the frame, and kid playing on top-left of the frame:
2. Surrealism
Who do the hands belong to?
“Paris – New York” exhibition. Photographs from the “Handshow ” by the French artist Robert FILLIOU and the US artist Scott HYDE showing the hands of 24 artists.
3. Older and younger selves
Also note the nice composition with the directions their eyes are looking, adding visual tension:
Humor: Also an older monk vs younger monk:
Bodnath. Shechen Monastery. Tulku KHENTRUL LODRO RABSEL (12 years old) with his tutor LHAGYEL. At the age of 5, KHENTRUL decided that he had lived enough with his parents and that it was time for him to enter the monastery. Two or three years after their death, important lamas are reincarnated in the body of a child. The search for this child is based on the information left by the lama himself: dreams, visions and the intuition of other lamas. The Tulkus are discovered at 3 or 4 years of age, declared at about 4 or 5 and then enter the monastery at the age of 6. According to the rules of the monastery, each Tulku is instructed by a tutor and is either prevented or restricted from seeing other young monks from their age group. All the Tulkus are called Rinpoche which means “the precious one”.
Another example of old versus young:
Tenzin TOSAM Rinpoche with his tutor Gen PAGDO.
Two or three years after their death, important lamas are reincarnated in the body of a child. The search for this child is based on the information left by the lama himself: dreams, visions and the intuition of other lamas. The Tulkus are discovered at 3 or 4 years of age, declared at about 4 or 5 and then enter the monastery at the age of 6.
According to the rules of the monastery, each Tulku is instructed by a tutor and is either prevented or restricted from seeing other young monks from their age group. All the Tulkus are called Rinpoche which means “the precious one”.
4. Triangle composition
And a nice photo of Henri Cartier-Bresson (her husband):
Triangles with this old lady in the foreground (nice gesture with the hand over her eye), and the two people in the background:
5. High perspective, looking down:
Minimalism.
6. Humor
