Urban Explorers

Buckle up urbanites because J.R. Konen is on the way! That's right, first on the photo education train issssss!!! URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY! In this wild endeavor I will be taking on a new and exciting mission to explore the city life around me. And since this explorer lives in the 'Corn Capitol of Illinois' I will be struggling extra hard to make my little bitty neighborhood look the part.

So Here's the skinny!

Urban photography is pretty much the 'ghetto' of photography. Its there to make a statement, or convey a message.

(Of course when I first began the search for answers on this particular subject this morning, my idea of urban photography was something along the lines of not quite within the city and of houses and such, so that proves how little I know).

For the most part, the subject matter of urban photography is illicit or illegal. Graffiti, broken windows, and broken down or abandoned buildings. For this reason us explorers will be keeping our heads down and hands in our pockets, unless you don't mind going to jail. Joking, there is pretty much nothing you can do in Cortland that would constitute that kind of thing, but for you explorers out there who are joining in, remember the code! If a cop stops you while you are trying to take a photo..., cry like a baby.

But seriously, once I spent some time exploring the world of Google's Image Search, I came to realize though, its not only the broken down and smashed up windows that make up 'UP.' Its also high commerce (Hahaha big words from the net, basically meaning the rich peeps). So here's a bit of information taught to us from birth, but I didn't realize would apply here as well. MIDDLE CLASS DOESN'T MATTER! That's right, I have to suck it up and realize the world does not revolve around me, again, heh. But this does make it easy for those of us that do not want to get mugged at our local motorcycle bar, instead of exploring the dangerous side of 'UP,' go for the fancy pants rich society.
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So as far as today's education, we've learned the basic idea. So lets go out there and make a statement!


JRK (baggybunny)

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Photo of the day:
Urban Graffiti