Apparently, July 17th has been designated as Non Photography Day; a day when you are suppose to ‘celebrate the moment, don’t document it’.
Non- photography day is an effort on my part to revive the moment by putting down the camera. It is a day to think about how life exists, in essence and not appearance and to understand the inadequacy of the photograph in describing this essence, to bring awareness of the perils of living through the view finder or the display screen…
Of course, the real irony will be when a tag group appears on Flickr for people documenting the events of non photography day… Update — oh crap, it’s already happened…
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