The Nature of Landscape

I attended this workshop on Ocotber 13, 2009 at the Sydney Mishkin Gallery. As understood, the goal of the workshop was to perceive how many photographers viewed landscape, whether it be mountains, hills, planes, or people. During the workshop we saw many photographs of close-ups, aerial views, frozen landscapes, and silhouettes. This workshop did take me out of my comfort zone because I am not such of an artistic person, especially when it comes to photography. I had never expected that either forward or abstract art could be fascinating. It was interesting to see the different ways that photographers perceive nature. One of the pictures that I saw the most interesting was of 4 people lying on the streets of New York City naked with their butts up. However, the photographer did not perceive it as something offensive or indecent. Rather, the shape of the back and the butts of the 4 people were seen as hills and/or mountains. I thought it was a unique way of looking at nature. I would definitely recommend this workshop to anyone because it really makes you think about the way we see the earth and the nature of landscape through our daily lives. I learned that you don’t have to be a professional photographer to take pictures of life, you just have to have imagination and the want to not see life just in a boring way, but as something creative and with your imagination, it can be whatever you want it to be. 🙂