Along side.
The first photo is a recent of Emily. The second one I took last August in Bramps while I was walking home through the fields and farms near my parent’s house. The letterboxes around them are inspired by the loads of widescreen cinema I’ve been consuming of late. The other day I was watching Everything is Illuminated, a film which gives me the same feelings of nostalgia as the above photographs. In it a character played by Eugene Hutz says,
“I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.”
Frankly, I couldn’t have put it better myself. This is the reason I love photography. Every frame an opportunity to document, to remember, to remind, to live along side! To return home and to move forward all at once.
Stunning. Both of them. I love how the bottom one emulates a film still: it makes me long for the open road. And cinema. (Also, did you watch Everything Is Illuminated AGAIN?)