JEN BEKMAN

October 29th, 2007

上周令人高兴的是我被JEN BEKMAN blog了。记得去年冬天去纽约时专门去了JEN BEKMAN的画廊,可惜那天关门了,正好有展出我喜欢的Ye Rin MokDana Miller的作品。那天我站在画廊外张望里面的样子,心想着哪天要是自己也能在这里展出就好了。我一直想参加HEY, HOT SHOT,但是总觉得自己还不到火候,所以一直在准备之中。

自从知道这件事以后,我一直在猜测别人喜欢我的照片什么呢?坦率的说,那张我趴在树丛上的照片并不是我的最爱。但是至今我得到的结论是,一般那些介于自己的意图和意外之间的作品往往更受欢迎。就好比自己的靶子总是要偏一点才能射到别人的靶子上,射自己的靶子的太准别人一般是没有反应的。也许我是在胡说,但是我大概是这么理解的。

I was glad that Jen Bekman blogged me last week. Last winter when I was in NY, I paid a visit to JenBekman’s gallery. But unfortunately it was closed. I was going to see the work of my favorite photographers Ye Rin Mok & Dana Miller. I said to myself it would be so great if I can show my work here when I was peeking thru the window. I’ve been always wanted to apply for Hey, Hot Shot, but never felt I’m ready for it, even til now.

Since I knew the answer to my sudden fame, I’ve been guessing why people like my photos. Honestly, the one I was lying on the bush wasn’t among my favorites. But I’ve get a conclusion that usually the work in between my attention & accident is more popular. It’s like you have to miss your own target a little bit so that you can hit other people’s target. If you shoot right into your own target, other people don’t feel so much. Maybe I’m just havering, but basically that’s how I feel. 

4 Responses to “JEN BEKMAN”

  1. zeyez Says:

    有道理。
    也有体会。

  2. mansuetude Says:

    your comment is so insightful… i am going to think about it all day long. In literature, there is that idea of reader response theory, where you allow the reader cracks in the text to fill in for themselves… you said it about photos… i think it is very smart the way you work and think. Thanks!

  3. zeyez Says:

    没射准和故意射偏?

  4. pixy Says:

    故意射偏是没办法做到的,我能做的是尽量射准,然后在这个基础上多尝试些不同变化。
    It’s hard to miss my target on purpose. (If I do that, that means I’m aiming at some target I don’t even know where, that’s impossbile.) What I can do is to aim at my target as much as I can & try more options on top of that.

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