Photography is like capturing the moment through your perspective out of your own created bubble of reality that you live in. A snippet out of your own world. A snippet of yourself.
It shows colours, feelings, situations and emotions. To me, a spontaneously taken picture is one of the most personal things existing. It just captures the beauty of the moment, without filters, light correction or professional set design around. It simply is a visual document of a beautiful moment.
It shows someone’s perspective of a situation in a very personal way. It feels like looking through someone else’s eye, escaping into another body.
And if you ask me, that is one of the most intimate things to show someone.
Letting someone into your own created world, full of imagination, a piece of yourself, your personal created truth of things- that’s intimacy.
That’s why I love polaroid photography. It is unperfect, like life itself. We are getting such an overdose of perfectly curated photos on our Instagram feeds on a daily base, that we tend to forget the beauty of something real.
The other week, I went on a solo trip to Budapest, to join a friend at Sziget festival. It was a spontaneous decision, but that’s what life is made of in the very end.
The moments where the ones where you just did not care, the ones where you just lived.
Budapest is a very stunning and beautiful city, full of stories and life. It was very hot when I went there (apparently one of the hottest days of the year), and when I went into a small bookshop the owner told me that on the warm days, they make the best sales as people can’t do any other sorts of meaningful activities.
Whilst roaming through Budapest’s old alleyways, filled with heat and the smoke of cigarettes, I took a few snippets with my polaroid camera.
And when I went to the Sziget festival, I lived in the moment, enjoyed the atmosphere, and it was one of the best days of my life.
When Florence and the Machine were performing on the stage and she asked everyone to put their phones away. Everyone did. Everyone lived in the moment and loved life to the fullest.
However, in every situation, I tried to capture the moment, the feeling and the atmosphere in an unperfect way.
Simply, how it was. Messy, chaotic, lovely and utterly beautiful.
I know, I am a fucking juvenile, seeking its place in this big mess called life, but I wouldn’t want it any other way.
So, lean back, have some tea and enjoy the beauty of my Budapest adventure on polaroid.
Nina X.