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Matinee: 'Walking Photography Stories'
21 September 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 570th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Walking Photography Stories.
This three-minute clip was filmed and edited by Simon Thurlow for Walking Photography Tours, which offers photography lessons in Britain led by professional photographer Rich Bunce.
"Photography isn't just how I make my living, it's how I live," he writes on his Web site. "From freezing moments in time to creating something that goes beyond the limits of human vision, I'm obsessed with using a camera to express my thoughts and experiences."
That's the spirit he passes on to his attendees, who do all the talking in this video. And it's their appreciation for taking photographs that charmed us.
They are of all ages in all stages of life. But for each of them, photography has enriched their lives. We'll let them tell their own stories, but we will say that they were frank and insightful and, well, touching.
We found them particularly moving these days as we struggle to adapt to perhaps months of double vision after our concussion six weeks ago. We weren't wrong when we observed that you use a camera with one eye so we weren't actually disabled. But we didn't appreciate how much we relied on two eyes to scan the world around us to find something to train that one eye on.
So we were surprisingly feeling a bit nostalgic as we listened to these stories.
But we found our own efforts here at Photo Corners mirrored in what Bunce is trying to share with his fellow travelers. The joy of something that takes you out of yourself and puts the beauty of the world around you within reach.