Tourist Trap

My big project of the summer and fall 2009 was “In Museums”.

Museums look like nice place to take great pictures. They are filled with

pieces of art, people and sometimes have nice architecture. Everybody

is taking pictures so it’s easy to shoot discreetly unsuspecting people.

Too bad that a lot of museums don’t allow taking pictures and it’s real

shame. May be they share belief – when you take picture of a person

you can also steal his/her soul.

Before I started to shoot my project I’ve researched on the web – what

pictures people usually take in museums. I’ve made a list of things to

avoid:

1. Don’t shoot pieces of art unless they are part of visual composition –

somebody else created this art, it’s not my goal to reproduce other

artist’s work

2. Don’t take pictures of people mimicking statues

3. No pictures of people yawning or sleeping in front of paintings or

sculptures

4. Avoid taking picture of nice old lady looking at the genitals of a naked

male statue

5. Don’t bring models and shoot them naked between statues and

children

So what’s left for me to do? My goal was to shoot visual compositions

created by pieces of art, people surrounding them and architecture of the

buildings they are placed in.

You can read more here: photo3dart.com/wordpress/?p=327

Very interesting picture!

Its an very interesting idea!

This picture, but also you project.

For this one, i like how you could be able to get it out of "perspective" - means, are this 2 persons within an additional "trap" for others to watch! Great! Funny!