Behind the Camera: Marc Nair

( I used to think, filtered four, sand-shorline-ship)

I used to think that he was just a usual photographer who worked with the Mackerel but he was a poet who grouped his pieces of poetry with photos. He worked with so many other people and went to so many places that you would never have guessed that by his first impression. I chose a feather pen to symbolize poetry and that is how poets back in the day would write, with a feather as a pen in ink. I chose a suitcase to show that Marc Nair would travel a lot for his photographs and career. I chose a camera to show that he was a photographer and that was part of his career. I chose a bottle and carton to symbolize plastic and that was one his pieces called “plasticpalego” and it was about this generation getting used to plastic being everywhere and not doing anything about it. Sand: To think like i writer… it helped me understand that to think like a writer, you need to get inspired to write about  something if you want to write well about it. Not because you are forced but because you want to write about it, heavily describe to the reader about your message and get the point across in a creative way. Shoreline: About the speaker, I already sort of mentioned my thoughts (before and after) about the speaker so there isn’t anything else to add in this section. Ship: What might stay with me is him saying: “Consider the process as something a kin to the eye of a photo, composing scenes” (or something like that. That if you have an idea you need to think about the process and taking a vision of a scene to turn it into a poem or a photo or a story.

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