Shutter Hub is seeking submissions on the theme ‘Feeling Seen’. It says: We want photographers to capture the essence of their current emotions, sensations, and surroundings. Our sense of feeling goes beyond the physical – it’s emotional, atmospheric, and relational. It’s through these feelings that we connect with one another on a deeper level.
I’ve submitted five pictures, one of which below with accompanying text.
In a fast-paced unstable world where the weeks, months and years race by it’s easy to feel disempowered, invisible. We need an anchor, to be seen. The shadow provides confirmation of our materiality, identity and intrinsic self. It is an extension of who we are, that part of us that is tied to reality: without our substantive body there is no shadow. The shadow, which varies with angle and light, reflects the complexity of the one who casts it. Fleeting and malleable it simultaneously symbolizes the dichotomy of freedom and confinement, the escape into dreams and the weight of being.