Street Photography - Series Unplugged

“I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.” Bruce Gilden “I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images, I live with them”. Bruce Gilden I think my photos always tell a story, or that is what I’m aiming for. I’m not interested in them being technically perfect. It’s fantastic if any of them are. But no, what I care about is narrating. And that’s why I think street photography works, even for portraits. As a photographer, I establish connections with my characters. My photographs are incomplete, I carry those characters in an image which is definitely not reality but in general prompts me to want to know more about them. But that’s as far as they go, and I have to resign myself to it. My characters are people unplugged from reality or dreamers who take me back to Emil Cioran’s idea, ‘an instant of lucidity, just one, and the nets of the vulgar real will have broken so that we can see what we are: illusions of our own thought’.