Choosing a career as a child-raising sister-in-law can mentally allow the children to heal their wounded souls, and financially, they can guarantee food and lodging, no need to live without a fixed place, and even have no family burden and family fetters. Time to devote myself to the creation of my favorite street photography. The works are never published, and they are not directed by anyone. They do not need to do propositional essays, and only shoot the shutter moments that they think are good. Not for fame, to create without being disturbed, to enjoy yourself, to feel like living in the crowd, but keeping a distance from others, isn't this the best state for portrait/street photographers? It seems to be very close to you, just for a moment, all the feelings condensed in the moment of the shutter, and then you and I are still strangers when we came.
Destiny is so interesting sometimes, how much the artist wanted to keep a low profile and hide himself when he was alive, the boxes of film had slanted the floor of the attic, and he wouldn't take it out to anyone to see, not even to develop it himself (probably Because there is no payment for printing), after his death, a very curious, very persistent and a bit obsessive-compulsive producer discovered his work, not only to hold a photography exhibition to show people all over the world, but also to shoot a documentary Going for the Oscars finally made me, an ordinary Chinese audience, see such natural and unpretentious portrait photography with excellent composition and expression.
Vivienne's mother is also a photography enthusiast. Her father died young, and she has no biological siblings. The mother and daughter depend on each other for life. Vivian inherited her mother's hobby. Did she also pin her longing for her mother when she picked up the camera? But she is not a person who entrusts her true feelings with others. She leaves her ambitions to the camera that never leaves her, recording the people around her or her own life. Reading current affairs and social news every day is probably also integrated into the shooting material. In my later years, I was a little desolate. After I stopped filming, I didn't hear that I still had the habit of reading newspapers. I just sat on a park bench for a long time every day. I shoot a lot when I can, no matter what the content, as long as I like it, I can record it anytime and anywhere, and then collect it one by one. It was part of her own personal belongings, something that was very personal, and maybe it became a part of her heart that she never revealed to others, so she never looked at others, and never left her no matter where she was, "That's her Baby, don't allow others to move." Perhaps only after death, and only after death, can the praise of the world be obtained. Even so, sitting alone on a bench in her later years, she lived the life she thought of. If there is a feeling of fireworks dissipating just before the end of life, but this whole life follows the heart and has never been muddled, isn't this life in vain?
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