Ono: shooting coffee, self-healing

Coffee Online

Recently saw a group of pictures on the Internet news. Jack Lang, an American photographer, used high-speed photography to capture the beautiful moments of coffee splashing for a year. Jack Lang always shoots in the same mug, looking at the volume and color of the liquid, which should be American coffee. The most common coffee, in the photographer's lens, its splash solidification moment, some like buds, some like jellyfish, and all have a jade-like texture.

I couldn't help but stare at these photos for a long time. Jack Lang gives us a different perspective on coffee. Coffee is a very common drink, he said, but coffee fans must be secretly looking forward to more unique coffee photos.

He was right about me. But when you think about it, it seems like more often than not, I just wish there was something like coffee in a scene, in an image. Since I was 29, I have been photographing my first cup of coffee every day. After a while, I realized that I didn't have a fixed coffee habit. The first cup of the day, sometimes at home, see the sun charming, quickly ran to get a cup to match the sun; sometimes office coffee, because always feel monotonous with that cup, began to match some cute packaging snacks; sometimes took coffee, conveniently to the cat next to a few; also sometimes the first cup of coffee in the morning is airplane coffee and train station coffee, although also took but always feel this coffee photos are wailing sound...

These shots are purely documentaries, with no creative ambition. Human memory is unreliable. Many times we recall a certain year of life. If nothing big happened, the memory of that year is very vague, and of course we can't remember what we did on a certain day. So one needs to create an outlet for one's memory, to seal a mood, a story, in a song, in a letter, or in a photograph.

Even so, shooting coffee is a great thing for people who aren't coffee fans. It's actually hard to photograph food to convey how good it looks and how it tastes, to convey a sense of living joy and excitement. Only coffee is born to hold the props, a cup of hot, floating above the thick amber oil coffee, a look at people surging happy mood, to take advantage of the oil contact air before becoming black, quickly record that happiness.

To use a fashionable term, shooting coffee is also a kind of self-healing therapy.

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