Recognizing the self by photography!

Photography is my special interest. I love experiencing all kinds of photography, from arty to journalistic. However, I prefer an anthropological approach to societies. I like to discover all the hidden dimensions of each culture. In fact my photos explain how I view my surroundings. They indicate the angle from which I observe and the quality of them from my point of view. They always raise some questions: Do I see my surroundings smaller or bigger than their real sizes? Do they look sharp or blurred? How do their colours look like? Do they seem beautiful or ugly? Do they attract others? Etc. 

I also do like nature photography. When you take photos of humans, they might seem different, sorrowful or delightful. Nevertheless nature photography mostly deals with beauties, from clear blue sky to dark rainy clouds, from mountains to deserts, from seas and oceans to rivers, from trees to flowers, from wild animals to domestic pets, etc.They are all adorable and lively. 

I prefer old and vintage objects to modern, particularly digital, ones. I like artistic architecture. Object photography is quite popular. Even though, to me, taking photo of an object means you give life to them. That is why photography is a kind of creativity exercise, in which you develop this ability in yourself.  

Photography simply reflects what I like more and what I dislike. It exposes the tracks of my train of thought. It explores the beauty of things. It is a sign. A sign that indicates which paths I choose to see all around me. Let’s do photography then and enjoy recognizing the self. 

The quality of life

Last week I was reading a book in a part of which, an example was given of Nicolae Ceau ̧sescu, the dictator of Romania between 1966 to 1989. It said when the dictator came to power, he banned abortion. In those years abortion was the main form of preventing the birth of unwanted children. In a year after that the birth rate was doubled. He wanted to strengthen his power by increasing the population. Most people were suffering from poverty in his country. They felt miserable. He forced women to get pregnant; otherwise he had agents called ‘Menstrual Police’ who regularly went to women's workplace and asked them for pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to show positive in her test, she had to pay a fine called ‘celibacy tax’. When the riots happened in 1989 in the streets of Timisoara, the fact was revealed. Most of the exasperate protesters were the youth. At least a noticeable part of them were those that were supposed to strengthen the government. He could not resist the riots and uprising of his people and tried to escape the country with his wife. People captured them and they were executed by a firing squad.

The story of Ceau,sescu awakened my memories. Actually he was visiting my country, when the streets of Timisoara were filled by those young protesters. Nobody could guess that he and his wife would get executed when they got back. It was quite shocking. In fact most of the revolutions happen so quickly, but the dictators never learn. They do not think similar stories would happen to them as well.