Weekly retrospective #18: BOOOOM!

That’s exactly what I’m feeling when I look at photography in our days.
Digital cameras are  affordable for everyone and those not owing a camera carrying their handy wherever they go. Really can’t remember to see such a flood of images flushing the whole internet every day.

But is this, the democratization of photography, good for the quality of photography in a wider sense? Everyone can state: I’m a photographer, even he or she is a lousy amateur.
Does Instagram, for example, help to enhance the quality of artistic photography?

In 1930 only a few people were able to drive a car, today millions of people do.
Has this been good to enhance the quality of driving a car? I’m sure it helped to enhance the quality of the cars itself, but that’s not the equivalent of a better driver standard.

The same for design and typography. This was a region only a few really good well trained people entered and gave the world some really timeless designs. Today everyone is a designer and all kind of typo is on your desktop computer and even on your handy. But is this good for the quality of typo we see everyday, from the internet to printed magazines?

Just something to think about.

Enjoy the pictures. First one taken 1985 in Sri Lanka. Pentax ME Super. Analog.
The second one in 1983 in Moscow, same camera.