when i first heard that we were going to watch a movie about a photographer " Edward Burtynsky" who set things and take amazing photos for things you never thought about. i was so interested to see his work. i also found new that there was a director too who actually direct the movie and within that edward's photos were shown and you can tell that when there is a stop action on a photo.
that documentary really opened new visions for me and a new aspects of art. he had chosen interesting places that no one would think to go and visit or even think to photograph, dangerous places, where there are all metals, oil, recycled places, and how people who are working there makes me feel they are so far from what we are living in. from their look, and how hard they work i feel it is so great to appreciate that place by showing it to people, and how all the products we do have, are made by the materials they are actually fixing, or who are making the first steps for recycling.
i think no one understood why was he doing that, what does he have in mind, but each one saw the documentary and his photos were inspired by how art is just amazing. how people see things differently, how can we present and show unfamiliar places to a great piece of art. those people i can call them artists. also, from what we have seen in the documentary, that he have been through hard time in many places, that they would not allowed him to get into the place itself, i think they are not used to it! and they were so surprised by someone wants to photograph such places. but he was smart. and i believe if those people have seen his work now, they would be so proud of themselves.
he was so great, i liked when he gathered all the workers in a factory in the street, and divided them into two rows standing, how patient they were, and how did he convince them to do that for him! also the time management was surprisingly, they were like thousands and he did not want to lose the day light. it was the only source of light for his photograph. another example, when there were the ships, and he had the patience to stay and wait for the workers to remove many parts of metal of that ship, then he took the photo he had in his mind! he is just amazing.
from now on, i think i have new idea's for photography, by not just taking a picture of things people see interesting, no but making interesting piece of art by shooting a very normal uninteresting places.
