Here are my final selection for the project.
There are several hidden changes in the series if you look carefully.
1. The relationship from friends, married, family to alone;
2. ages from young, middle to old; also
3. quantity from couple, to 3, to a family size and back to 1.
Intimacy and solitude between us are always related to the state of relationship, time and age.
This is the
way how we experience, express and live with love in our life.
I think of a famous quote which claimed by Henry Louis Mencken (1920),
American Journalist and Critic,
"You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth."
Times
flies, but we can still love if we have the ability.
(Intimacy 1. to 4.
Solitude 5. to 6.)
1. The Crossing Friends
The lovely interaction between this pair of friends.
It is also the photo which inspires me idea and direction of this project.
Edinburgh, Oct 2012
2. The Walking Couple
It shares the same position and pose of the couple as the first photo,
but it expresses a total different emotion from the first.
It is not as intimate as the relationship in first photo.
Bristol, Nov 2012
3. The Crossing Old Couple
Love the intimacy that expresses by this old couple,
and how it contrasts with the lonely man beside.
Bristol, Nov 2012
4. The Waiting Family
A family shot which shows the old man totally minded his own business only,
but the old woman had to take care of the two grandchilds.
It is kind of interesting scene and
funny contrast here about the idea of "intimacy" (as a family) and solitude (seperated responsibility)
Bristol, Nov 2012
5. The Crossing Strangers
As I mentioned before, it is an interesting scene here,
which the composition suggests that they seem know each other, and is "intimate" in their position.
But when you look closer of their facial expressions,
they are strangers to each other: the form of solitude.
Bristol, Nov 2012
6. The Waiting Old Man
I intentionally put this photo of the lonely old man at the end of series,
just want to question people about the relationship between time and human,
and also about the concept of "intimacy" and "solitude" to everyone of us.
London, Nov 2012
Reference:
- Mencken, H, L. (1920), Retrieved on 5 December 2012, from
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