Raven, Asad, Asad-2, Basil and Rui "2oo8"
For this blog post i have decided to take a gamble and put on show a very interesting series of portraits that i have taken in the past year. its almost an ongoing project. I call this " Caught Slipping". Slipping is a term used in urban culture which means caught off guard. i have taken a series of images of friends and family members which i caught of guard. These are moments you can not remake they are moments which when captured make great photographs, and i also have flipped the script in the sense that the Sleeping stands for Sleeping in the photographs. so my subject or sitters are actually caught of guard dosing off.
Raven is a close friend of mine. i took this shot on an Easy jet flight to Portugal. we were on our way to lads week holiday. It was five of us and we looking forward to a week of sun,booze and sexy females. The night before we waited at the air pot for hours because we had a six O'clock flight and we didn't want to be late as we were from London and flying from Luton. i think the wait had finally kicked in during the flight and quite a few of us dosed off and i was able to capture Raven , Asad and Rui. i like Raven's shot because there is a lot going on the sleeping technique used is fascinating and they way he opens his mouth as he snores is quite comical and adds to the picture.
I think it also became a fascination of how people all have different ways of sleeping as to the techniques used, Asad leans forward and also in both shots he uses his hand for support on the weight of his head compared to Raven and Rui who both let their head back on the head rest and both actually open their mouths as they snore. I suddenly became intrigued by this and through out the holiday i got shots of my friends tired and sleepy. The final shot is my cousin Basil and this was actually on his birthday 22nd night. the whole family had gone out for dinner and had a lot of fun, there was music and drink at a famous South African restaurant by the West end. The night had finally taken a toll on him and i found it quite overwhelming and somehow sweet in a sense that the fellow had a very long day opening presents and eating and dancing away celebrating a big day in his life. i think this image puts an icing on the cake on the series because of the story behind it. This story of Basil's 2'nd birthday is very sweet i find, maybe this is because we are related and it means more to me than it would to a normal observer to the image.
These are my portraits of friends and Family, i hope you enjoy this particular blog because its almost my own personal project. The is also a documentary feel to it so reading the post will actually help with the understanding of the images and hopefully this will make it more enjoyable.
By Condry . Calvin . Mlilo
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