Hello Hivers, hello Hive! Hello dear Phototgrapy lovers community, here is my entry dedicated to @friendlymoose and his weekly photo contest which is very close to my heart. #FPC
This week’s theme is: REPETITION, when I have found out that this is the theme, I was & still am beyond happy, as this is such a cool topic, and I am more than sure that this will bring loads of cool pictures captured by my fellow photographers who are sharing their content here, once that the door was opened by @friendlymoose only beauty apperead in so many forms.
I have already seen few of your entries, such a creative content you have shared! Glad I have the chance to see & I am looking forward to see more, so please join. There was an entry which particularly made me feel & trip! :) such a great repetition! Wow!
Now I guess is my turn, to share with you, my photo on these REPETITION theme. Hope I am not boring you, by repeating myself and repeating the REPETITION word, but why not? This in the theme for the week :)).
The picture I am sharing here, is one which I shot last spring in Romania at a market stall. My presence there? Usually I shop there as I love to have access to more clean food & support the old people which are still keeping traditions of growing food & animals, being dedicated to the hard work of the earth perhaps all their life. Yet this time I was there with one of my friends which was hosting a photography course in the following weeks yet she was a bit shy when comes to street photography, “I took her by her camera :)))” & invited her in the market in order to break the ice and have an exercise before the course starts.
It was an amazing evening as everything turned out quite magical, people were ultra friendly, we even interviewed few & listened to their life stories. It was indeed what was needed for both of us.
When comes to the first picture I have shared in this entry, a particular one for #FPC / Repetition, I think I was quite lucky, being able to catch few repetitions in one go, plus the human form element made my day.
The receding beams and ceiling panels forms a tunnel of quite boring geometry, their rigid rhythm is drawing the viewer inwards, step by step.
The potato sacks, stacked in a rhythmic cluster of purple, red, yellow / mustard yellow & brown, repeatedly mirroring each other across the length of the the so called corridor of the market stall, each one similar, yet slightly unique.
And then, at the very far end, the scene closes not with a wall, but with a raw-delicate grid of repetitive glass panels, a transparent mosaic which reflects & refracts the scene in abstract ways. Here are three repetitions in one, organic, architectural & structural, layered upon one another, each reinforcing the next one, almost in a meditative rhythm, guiding the eyes deeper into the scene, almost like in a mantra.
The forth element ( human life ), to which I am forever grateful, not only because… she appeared in divine timing, unposed, unassuming, unaware that she will make my picture complete, yet she placed herself so perfectly. She looks like she was guided to dress herself for the event & this particular frame as she wears a coat of mustard yellow & a hat of deep violet, the very colours of the potato sacks stacked around her. Whether by intention or fate, she becomes the very living thread that ties the scene together. The human form interrupts the repetition just enough to remind us that within structure, there is life, as she echoes the whole scene, repetition as pattern back to the viewer, and I am forever thankful to her presence.
Like this, the quiet corridor of trade, repetition becomes art, or is not even becoming as the whole scene was there, ready to reveal herself to me the one who can perceive it. This is not just a shoot of a market stall, vegetables & boring architecture, it is a very portrait of life & her rhythm, of how she arranges herself, in so called loops and layers, through labour, colour, whispering her quiet poetry everywhere & in every moment, always & forever. We just need to be there, present, breathing simultaneously with her.
This post ends here, thank you for your time & attention. I know that perhaps it made you feel something, not by doing, but by life.
Now it’s time to go out there and see more entries on this topic and be grateful that @friendlymoose is in here, holding space for life to reveal in all her forms of creativity.
Have a good one everyone,
See you next round,
With Love,
Iulia Qiparosa