Change

Do you know what happens when a wave stumbles to the shore? Other waves will catch up with it and let it be drowned in its own existence.

"Constant move" is NOT change.

If we move like waves do; if we shift our existence at one place to another, something else - some other wave - will fill our previous space.

That we move on without looking back simply means that we will continue to live a protected dream. Yet every spot we give up will turn into someone else's dream; and potentially into a nightmare for us. We'll lose more and more ground if we make the change a habit. We'll lose sense.

We, the so called "enlighteneds" or "intellectuals" have problems with everyting else: radicals, liberals, conservatists, seperatists... you name it... We have problems because they fill in "our" spots and we say that "it was our spot." "Was" is the keyword here. Weren't we the ones who abandoned that spot for a temptation of a hyped-up word "change," even though we never grasped what the change meant.

Is change good? It actually depends on how much you appreciate the realities surrounding you and how wel you do react on them. If you don't react and just shift your spot continiously, you won't change but they won't change either. If you react they will continue to be the same and you will change; you will be forced to change. If you act; however, they will change.

Repating my question: is change good? It depends on what you want to get out of change. If you do want to change, do not cry; if you don't want to change do act. Choose your style, choose your change.

• Photographer

  Can Berkol

• Location

  Türkiye, İstanbul, Ortaköy

• Assignments & Events

  Not Available

• Models

  Not Available

• Styles

  Still Life, Urban Decay, Vintage

• Tags

  book, bookshop, sahaf

• Equipment

  Canon 5D
  Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

• Shooting Specs.

  Date Published: August 19, 2010
  Date Taken: July 12, 2009
  Aperture: f/5.6
  Shutter Speed: 1/160
  ISO: 160
  Focal Length: 165 mm
  

• Post-Processing

  Crop applied. Cotnrast increased.

• Notes

  Leman is one of the phenomenal comic magazines of Turkiye. This shot is taken at a bookstore; it is one of the early issues of Leman. I've been walking and talking to myself. I was questioning change; how things changed, was it for good or for bad. Then I have stumbled this bookstore, and took this hsot.