Project: Fences and Frame

These photographs represent boundaries, fences that keep things separate, boundaries very similar to photographic frames. They hold moments intact, they express to the viewer what one can find within them, and so much more. I am beginning to notice what photography does. It creates awareness that what is within the frame, wakes us up to what is outside it. This series of photographs were taken in Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA. On a hot sunny day, I was drawn to a large pond overlooking the Atlanta skyline. I came upon an older man sitting in a hammock swing with his guitar, speaking to a young woman sitting on the grass a short distance away. I was looking at the water and the conversation wandered into my ears about music and travels and I noticed the woman looking up at him intensely interested in his thoughts. I asked the man if I could photograph him and promptly with a smile said he could say no. He said no at which point I introduced myself and said that it was perfectly fine. He said there wasn’t anything special to photograph. A brief conversation ensued and then I slowly moved closer to the edge of the water. There was a fence, there was a boundary, there was a frame and there was a man and a young woman present. These are the moments around these photographs. There was so much beyond the fence and so much between that man and woman. Susy Andrea Kamber