Searching for the Surreal in Everyday Life By Kerri MacDonald

The blog post I chose was “Searching for the Surreal in Everyday Life” by Kerri Macdonald. Tomasz Lazar is a 26-year-old freelance photographer that was born in Szczecin, Poland and travels between there and Warsaw for his projects. The image that is being displayed for this article is a photograph from her long-term project called “Coastlines”. At first when I saw the image, without even knowing the background story, I thought it was from being on the set of a photo shoot for swim suits or some other advertisement. After reading what inspired this photograph, I was amazed that it was from a storm that was heading to the beach and the other two people in the image are just regular people taking pictures of a woman who wanted to feel the wind and water from the storm.

I chose this photograph because it reminded me of fashion and the way the picture was captured it resembled a photo shoot set. The way the women in the photograph is positioned it looks as if she is controlling the waves and clouds that are around her. I think this type of photography would have looked better in color since there is so much going on within the image and would have probably helped identify the setting the photograph was taken. What really makes this image intriguing is that Tomasz used a flashlight to capture the moment, which helped give the photograph more detail.

I took some time to view the rest of the photographs for Tomasz’s project “Coastline” and a lot of his images are framed really well and have a pattern of showing circles and square shapes within the photographs. Tomasz’s intentions were expressed in a simple yet detailed way. His beach segment within his “Coastline” project is where the picture I chose is from and all the other images aren’t as powerful as that one because they display family time at the beach so there wasn’t any risk at taking the photos.

This image stood out to me from all the other articles display pictures because it really made my mind wander on what is going on. The photograph in a way does not really relate with the rest of the beach pictures because none of them could work without being a series while this display photograph does not need a series to get its point across. The fact that Tomasz was experimenting when he took this photograph is amazing because it turned out so well and has inspired me to take more of a risk when I take pictures.

source: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/searching-for-the-surreal-in-everyday-life/