Thijs LucasHiding what matters
A family on one bicycle is not just surrounded but hidden behind cars. These soulless machines carry humans too but they are not seen. This picture shows all the imbalance of power in hour public spaces. Cars in the foreground swallowing the family, in the background even more parked cars. Public space made by humans to accommodate metalboxes. Cars are dominant here in Kiel and Kiel is one of the better cities in Germany. They are seen everywhere, blocking views, causing noise and danger, a human scale mobility is given away for inefficient car traffic. We let children pay the price. They pay with given away freedom, forced dependency, sometimes we demand lifes to pay for unconditional car dominance.
I never planned the first picture with that family drowning in car traffic. When taking panning photos my complete attention goes to the process of focusing and following the moving object. I usually prepare for a combination of object and desired background but thinking of two cars fotobombing the foreground without hiding the main characters would be something I wouldn’t dare to wish for.
PS: If you recognise yourself and your familiy on the picture please give me a sign. I would love sharing the original and a print with you and I would like to ask, if you would be fine with unbluring your faces.
#TernBikes #Longtail #LongtailCargobike #UrbanPlanning
#Kiel
#Panning
#FujifilmXT3 #Fujinon16_80f4
A family on one bicycle is not just surrounded but hidden behind cars. These soulless machines carry humans too but they are not seen. This picture shows all the imbalance of power in hour public spaces. Cars in the foreground swallowing the family, in the background even more parked cars. Public space made by humans to accommodate metalboxes. Cars are dominant here in Kiel and Kiel is one of the better cities in Germany. They are seen everywhere, blocking views, causing noise and danger, a human scale mobility is given away for inefficient car traffic. We let children pay the price. They pay with given away freedom, forced dependency, sometimes we demand lifes to pay for unconditional car dominance.
I never planned the first picture with that family drowning in car traffic. When taking panning photos my complete attention goes to the process of focusing and following the moving object. I usually prepare for a combination of object and desired background but thinking of two cars fotobombing the foreground without hiding the main characters would be something I wouldn’t dare to wish for.
PS: If you recognise yourself and your familiy on the picture please give me a sign. I would love sharing the original and a print with you and I would like to ask, if you would be fine with unbluring your faces.
#TernBikes #Longtail #LongtailCargobike #UrbanPlanning
#Kiel
#Panning
#FujifilmXT3 #Fujinon16_80f4
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