Family pictures or snapshots is a subject that I find strangely intriguing.One of the reasons being its predictability. Pick up any photo album and you pretty much know what to find; a lot of birthday parties,weddings, vacations,kids, dogs and cats. Posed pictures and red eyes is usually the norm.
What is interesting is of course what we choose to photograph and what we leave out which leads me to the British Photographer Martin Parr's claim that family pictures is a form of propaganda. People take pictures in weddings, never in funerals, kids are always supposed to be cute and not cry.
Unless you happen to know the person(s) in a given picture, most family pictures are fairly boring to watch. Nevertheless, there is something about the "snapshot estetique", that is very intriguing. Whereas most serious photographers will strive for pictures that have "good composition", snapshooters couldn't care less about composition and this will occasionally result in an unintentionally interesting picture.
This being the case, I am currently playing around with a "vacation picture theme" for the pctures that I took in Krakow, Poland.I am excited too see how it turns out. More later
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