"Selfie" - a happy trick that makes contemporary girls addicted to more than fried chicken milk tea.
Girls often have a separate photo album in their mobile phones, which may contain a hundred similar but not identical selfies, where the hands are placed, the curvature of the corners of the mouth and eyebrows, where the eyes are looking...
In this era, the coolest new skill of girls is to be able to keenly pick out the most suitable one in all aspects from a bunch of similar photos, spend half an hour through three software to retouch pictures, po on their circle of friends.
Such a meal of operation will often dazzle straight men.
Someone asked: selfies are so tired, why are you still addicted to selfies? Why?
The answer is – anything can be a reason for girls in the 21st century to take selfies.
Shoot when you're happy, shoot when you're eating, shoot at a party, and of course, shoot when you're in a bad mood!
The "sense of ritual" that is accustomed to recording life by taking pictures has become an indispensable guide for contemporary young people to obtain happiness.
And today, we want to introduce you to such a person:
A premium portrait photography that can help you turn your selfie into an atmospheric blockbuster SSR@ photographer K.
Preview: There are welfare easter eggs in the article!
01 In his camera, you will be yourself
"The day they broke up, they decided to ask me to take a group of couple photos."
When shooting, K always encounters all kinds of people and different stories that belong to them.
K, on the other hand, is a sentimental person.
K of the Photography Department, after graduating from college, did not choose to work in the photo studio like most of his classmates around him.
Instead, he chose a photography studio with a small team.
K's reason for making this choice is also very simple, because the photographer FengZhong teacher, who is called "Dream House" Studio, has a creative philosophy that matches his:
"Photography should not be a mechanical work of mass reproduction for profit."
At Christmas, many people's circle of friends has been brushed by the photos of some Internet celebrity photo studios.
Everyone wore the same green or white wings, put on the same makeup, dressed up as angels or Christmas elves, walked into the studio and was clicked by the photographer for less than half an hour, and then was pulled to select a film.
Sometimes when you look at the film that you have finally been repaired by the retoucher, and then look at the film of others, you can't help but wonder in your heart:
"Could it be that the other party is my long-lost sister?"
This kind of Internet celebrity photo studio has conquered the troublesome young people with "fast".
Everyone is not dissatisfied when they finally get the photos in their hands, but there is always a faint sense of loss in their hearts.
Because although the internet celebrity photo studio has successfully turned ordinary people into the same style of celebrity or internet celebrity, they have neglected to satisfy the sense of ritual that young people want to record real life.
K's concept of photography creation may be "slow" that is not recognized by the mainstream of society, but each of his works records the true beauty of ordinary people.
In his camera, you can be yourself.
02 The old soul of the "slow" boy
In the eyes of many people, K is a boy who is not good at expressing some introversion, but it is undeniable that K is good at listening and recording.
After leaving the "Dream House", K is more free to follow his inner voice to photograph and create.
He likes to shoot with a film machine, and he likes the feeling of light and shadow intertwined in people.
He loves the happy smiles of his photographers and the inadvertent love of his partners.
He loves the moment when people take off their usual false pretense in front of his camera, real and relaxed.
He likes to capture and perfect each person's unique beauty in his photos, rather than the cookie-cutter celebrity red face.
Under the shell of the big boy, he has an old soul that yearns for "slow carriage and horse, only enough to love one person in a lifetime".
That's why he loves film cameras.
The cycle time required for a film camera to shoot to be developed is far behind the average cycle of this digital intelligence era.
But he likes this kind of "slowness", and he always feels that in this cycle, the stories of those who are photographed will better integrate with the photos and precipitate a more real emotion.
K says he's a man with no story, and his income isn't optimistic, but he rarely feels empty and bored, and rarely even thinks about giving up.
Because the stories and emotions he has recorded are wrapping him up, making him a better and more calm self to create.
K also founded a black-and-white portrait project with a hundred people free of charge.
The person involved in this program asks him to take pictures, he doesn't charge anything, he just needs the person being photographed to tell him the story that they remember the most.
The original intention of this project was to record the truth, which is also what he believes is the greatest value of photographic photography.
"I want to use the form of pictures to carry a story, a life, maybe many years later, when everyone picks up this picture again, they will recall their original selves, the joy of being with their family and partner, the wanton running in the sun, the collapse of crying in the night when no one is there..."
"If you can recall the emotions of the time through this photo, I think my shooting will be successful."
03 "Ritual is not a business"
This is a fast-paced era, and many "slow" things are being abandoned by this era.
Carriages, mail, letters, film machines...
When K decided to be "slow", a businessman said to him, "You can't do this, it's unrealistic, it's too idealistic, there are not many customers who are slow in efficiency, so you won't go far." ”
In this case, K will often hear.
Whenever this happens, K remembers the day he first picked up his camera to take pictures of his mom.
It was the first time he had grown up to look seriously at his mother's face, the wrinkles, the skin that was no longer tight...
Mom is getting old, but in his camera, Mom is like a child, laughing wildly, without restraint, and all the innocence and the "oldness" brought by the years are so naturally integrated at that moment.
On that day, he began to value the meaning of recording life.
"A sense of ceremony is something that everyone needs, whether you're a celebrity or an influencer or you're just an ordinary person."
"It should never, never be, a matter measured by a business perspective."