Spaces for personal reflection

[Asher Kelman]

Here we'd like to explore intimacy of man with his own sense of being, spirituality, reflection or humility.

Thanks for accepting the challenge. Be brave and take this to the limits and push your boundaries!

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

 

[Jarmo Juntunen]

Thank you Asher for this challenge! I'm looking forward to seeing what the members come up with.

This was shot some time ago, when I thought I was going through a darker patch in my life (well, I wasn't but that's another story).

Someone to watch you dream

 

[Asher Kelman]

Thanks, Jarmo for taking the first step in this challenging concept. I appreciate that you're pushing the envelope and that's what we need.

Asher

 

[Chris Calohan II]

Not sure this is what you had in mind for this thread, but I find other people's sleeping habits quite interesting as well. My daughter sleeps completely bundledd up except for her left foot which is always uncovered.

Her Left Foot: Chris Calohan​

 

[Maris Rusis]

Breakfast, Reading

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 FB VC photographic paper, image area 16.3cm X 16.3cm, from a 6x6 format Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Seagull twin lens reflex rollfilm camera.
Titled and signed recto, stamped verso.​

 

[Asher Kelman]

Chris,

The foot is an interesting variant; mentation is ours. The space I'd split. It would be an idea to see both of her covered and the foot making its own territory, so to speak.

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Breakfast, Reading

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 FB VC photographic paper, image area 16.3cm X 16.3cm, from a 6x6 format Tmax 100 negative exposed in a Seagull twin lens reflex rollfilm camera.
Titled and signed recto, stamped verso.​

Here we do have personal space of the person reading and the lighting to make it work!

Asher

 

[Chris Calohan II]

It was a shot in the dark, so to speak..there but not quite.

I like Maris' Spotmeter.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Thanks for adding this from your original thread on patience, to bring this image here for it's quality of private spaces. Remarkably, these young buddhist men seem to carry their personal space with them as they walk around town to the next part of their day. Often we see folk in mega-cities, like New york or Los Angeles move with blank stares as if they are zombified and free of anything but the need to move and arrive at the next location. The buddhist here, by contrast, do not allow time to be lost by freezing out emotion. Instead, they appear to be using this transit time to balance out their ideas and values.

From this unique picture, I see that we can indeed carry our intimate spaces with us in bubbles of thought. Here it's meditation but it could also be despair, sourness, joy or delusion or emptiness. We should look for more examples of these spacial human spaces.

Asher

 

[scott kirkpatrick]

Personal spaces

My son Tom likes to wrap himself up in or stretch out along a couch, but never just sit...

scott

 

[Antonio Correia]

My mother

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[Jarmo Juntunen]

Nothing's more personal to me than this.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Nothing's more personal to me than this.

Jarmo,

There appears to be snow on the roof. Is this a camp site, a homeless person; so what's the story?

Asher

 

[George Holroyd]

Most important room in the house

I took this picture looking out our kitchen window late yesterday afternoon while waiting for the kettle to boil. We live in an older, walk-up apartment building and our kitchen is tiny but we still both manage to squeeze into the space.

Kitchen window, Paris, 2013
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[Jarmo Juntunen]

Asher, that's no homeless person there but your's truly, lol! I wrote that nothing gets more personal to me than that particular sight. When I'm out in the woods alone I'm truly me. Not a father, not a husband. I am me.

The place is a campsite I visit regularly. It's just a few pine trunks away from the bridge you've seen here: http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16343

George, I love your kitchen picture. Looking at it makes me feel very comfortable, yet there is some sublevel I just can't reach.

 

[George Holroyd]

Thank you, Jarmo. The older architecture is something I've enjoyed seeing here in Paris.

 

[Asher Kelman]

I took this picture looking out our kitchen window late yesterday afternoon while waiting for the kettle to boil. We live in an older, walk-up apartment building and our kitchen is tiny but we still both manage to squeeze into the space.

Kitchen window, Paris, 2013
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It's so important and valuable that you're exploring and finding new spaces to photograph. I like this! There's no shake here! I wonder what this would look like if you'd add a ND filter so there would be slow shutter movement.

Asher

 

[Sam Hames]

My son Tom likes to wrap himself up in or stretch out along a couch, but never just sit...

scott

I like this one very much - very much a window into a personal space. The cat balances everything very nicely.

 

[George Holroyd]

The blurry version.

Kitchen window (re-mix), Paris, 2013
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[Jarmo Juntunen]

Scott's cat and boy picture is great! Good job.

 

[Sam Hames]

Here we'd like to explore intimacy of man with his own sense of being, spirituality, reflection or humility.

Thanks for accepting the challenge. Be brave and take this to the limits and push your boundaries!

Asher

I do a lot of reflection and thinking while washing up - sometimes it's helpful when I'm angry or frustrated to do something manual and repititive. Other times the source of my anger and frustration is not having the washing up done. It's hard to feel in control when you've let yourself run out of forks again.

Now that I think about it, the state of my sink is probably the single best indicator of how my life is going at that particular time - a kind of litmus test for my organisation and motivation.

 

[jake klein]

I'm not sure if it was the liquor or how great that chicken wing tasted but he was definitely deep in thought.

 

[jake klein]

I have often wondered what this individual was thinking so deeply about.

 

[jake klein]

A shot on some Kodak Portra 800 showing my friend thinking about this painting.

 

[jake klein]

My father-in-law doing some deep thinking while waiting for the bite to come.

 

[jake klein]

Definitely some deep thinking going on here! Enjoyment or regret?

 

[jake klein]

My son is a deep thinker in training!

 

[Asher Kelman]

I do a lot of reflection and thinking while washing up - sometimes it's helpful when I'm angry or frustrated to do something manual and repititive. Other times the source of my anger and frustration is not having the washing up done. It's hard to feel in control when you've let yourself run out of forks again.

Now that I think about it, the state of my sink is probably the single best indicator of how my life is going at that particular time - a kind of litmus test for my organisation and motivation.

Sam,

Perhaps you might review the lighting or whether it might be better presented in B&W where the colors don't pull us away from the conceptual process potentially evoked by such a composition. The lighting is directional, right now. Would there be some exploitation of this directionality to the light and therefore dimensionality of the space? Can we get more of an idea of a special space for dishes or for thinking about that process in our lives. After all, this is a space, within a kitchen space, but here, this distinction is not evoked. The RAW stuff of the idea is here, but could it perhaps, be enhanced by further?

Asher

 

[George Holroyd]

Lest you all think we're shut-ins, Sarah and I often walk through the Jardin du Luxembourg. I find it a nice place to sit among the shadows.

Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, 2013
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