Words are my bane
April 23rd, 2006,I rarely title my photographs, unless a name pops up and smacks me right in the face. More often I title my series, runs, and projects. Projects are conceptually easier for me to title. An image is a still, an image deserves to speak its whole truth on its own, without the need of words.
I spent my childhood spinning words on their ends, supremely confidant that I did not have what it took to make an image speak. Now that I’ve found the skill, I’m hesitant to let the two co-mingle. In the process, I sometimes worry that my words are dying, that it’s impossible for my tongue to speak in two languages.
Ideas build up inside me and often threaten to push their way out of my eyeballs. Usually they’re images, single shots that I can’t really work with until they’re part of a project. Sometimes they’re projects with no conceptual details, no images in them. I had one such today, and I don’t really know what to do with it, but I love the way it sounds:
“The Lowercase Experience : a photo project by Amul Kumar”
It’s got a ring to it I just can’t identify.