Right now seems like a precarious time to be shooting photos. Why am I doing it? My rationale:
1. It is important
To document history ; isn’t this essential to humanity? And to me,
To have the courage, audacity, and ‘recklessness’ to shoot photos when something is important — this is good.
For example, the photos of the Great Depression. During the housing crisis. Vietnam war. Key moments during history; if no photographers documented this, how could future generations of humans learn?
2. Street photography during covid?
Right now seems the best time to be shooting street photography. Face masks. The way people interacting in the streets and public is fundamentally different.
I used to romanticize the photos of Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson; globe trotting the world during all these historical events and wars. Now the war has become biological; we are at war with this virus. Why not document it?
3. Self documentation
During COVID-19, best to just document your own (‘boring’) life!
4. Good for physical and mental health
