Here, a few hours before 2011 rolls around, I like the idea of sharing my favorite five or ten images from the year — images I’ve taken that is. And I also like the idea of identifying them with my memory, without searching through my high-ranked images in my catalogs, although that would be fun. I mean, shouldn’t we remember our favorite image, even if we captured hundreds or thousands that we might need to see again to really see for the first time?
Thing is, I got only 20 minutes before I walk out the door to meet up with the parents-in-law-to-be, before we head over to brother- and sister-in-laws to be, for a late night of ¡Feliz Año!, which gets a heck of a lot more play here in Argentina than any other holiday. This one is big!
But perhaps less (time) is more (honest). With no time, I’m going to share, as my favorite image of the year (0f mine), one that I’ve already shared before, when I reported on my teaming up with Human Rights Watch.
Here it is:
A few reasons this simple image gets Ethan’s #1 for 2010:
1. It landed on the this cover for this Human Rights Watch report, which has turned out to be important in relation to current politics in Argentina (which is another story):
2. Actually, it didn’t just “land” on this cover. I made it for this cover, on assigmnment, which had very specific, but yet very open-ended requirements. In other words, this was a very real image-making challenge, and I succeeded at it, which makes the image more likable to me.
3. I captured this image very near the end of my four-hour shoot in Continue reading “My Favorite Image of the Year (of Mine)”