How Masahisa Fukase and his art changed me
If I asked you what your favorite sunset is, you would probably think of a day you were sitting alone or with a friend and consciously thought, 'Huh the sky today is pretty'. You might have had this thought hundreds of times but you can barely remember any of those beautiful sunsets. I used to think a lot about our ability to forget beautiful things and this made me take a lot of pictures, this helped me soothe whenever I was missing someone or something.
Learning about his life and obsession made me question the idea of capturing something, why do we click a picture? I could never come up with an answer that convinced me. Then one day I was sitting alone and looking at a picture I clicked two years ago in Ooty and all the emotions from that day hit me. I realized why I click pictures, it feels like saving a checkpoint in a game. I know I can't live that moment again but at least I can experience the good or bad things that happened in my life. This is why I decided to take photography seriously. When everything is to end, I would want to lie back comfortably and cherish my past, because, at the end of the day, the one I miss most is myself from the day before.
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