科技智能 SIEGFRIED HANSEN西格弗里德·漢森，街頭攝影的隱藏秩序

Do you have anything that serves as a counterbalance to photography What do you do when you want to unwind Ah right that’s good I haven't found the switch yet either There's nothing that stands out to me at that moment I really enjoy watching movies though that's naturally based on visual appeal And photography ultimately is just that to me Can you just look at it without constantly analyzing everything Yes I already enjoy that differently But when I'm outside I'm truly not in the jungle in terms of perception but rather more focused So I'm constantly checking Where is what where is the gesture how are the hands and somewhere there 's always something You've also photographed the chair here a few times Exactly the chair There was such beautiful light here just a little while ago Yes but that's normal It always works It's not stressful for me at all in fact it's very very pleasant For others it might be exhausting to be with me but when we talk I always glance back now and then Is anything else happening there does anyone else come in or something like that That's normal It's just one of those things I can't get rid of that either Yes but you probably need it or perhaps one needs it just to keep going If you don't have that drive I see it the same way many people also ask me can you learn this kind of thing and so on I'm absolutely convinced that it can be learned Up to 95% the remaining 5% is simply personality what he has experienced in life his educational background and whether he enjoys graphics or focuses solely on street portraits But photography ultimately Up to a certain point it is definitely learnable—provided one is willing to commit Naturally you have to want it and be genuinely interested Of course you can't just tell anyone you're now going to do photography and expect to succeed up to a certain point If you stick with it But there has to be interest involved If there's no interest you won't make progress either That's perfectly clear But if someone is interested and invests the time and also seeks feedback or mentors along the way they'll go very very far Relatively quick and very far-reaching And as I said the last 5% are just Especially nowadays with the internet you can basically learn anything quickly or doing workshops and stuff like that That's truly the case It was definitely much harder back then twenty years ago But I'm also grateful that I As I mentioned back then I was still shooting films in Tokyo twenty years ago You wouldn't do it anymore would you Film Is it over for you Basically yes because it just doesn't make sense to me anymore Because I'm in viewing mode For many that's a form of slowing down But I'm already slowed down I'm in the zone I'm happy Everything's great Why should I hold myself back when I'm in my flow It makes no sense to me That it makes sense to others is also clear to me This is naturally a threefold deceleration when suddenly one only has 36 images left But if there's no other way I'd be willing to shoot photos too Then I'd just have to bring along a backpack full of film as well I'm already really happy with the digital aspect it quickly brought me up to a certain level and now it's obviously great being able to shoot quickly and immediately see what has been done whether there are any errors if the focus point is correct You showed me the same excerpt last year exactly how you'd crop it That way you can already tell if it works That's why I always feel the photos are already fully finished in my mind It's become second nature now It just works the way I do it Do you think you'll ever grow in any other direction in the future or do you believe it'll more likely be No You can already see it from the line extensions I leave these paths very very often Or the picture I showed you earlier with the snail I also take macro shots of flowers forks or things like that I really enjoy photographing in the macro realm I'd also love to try doing portraits or something similar someday But right now I'm still figuring things out I'm having a great time being outdoors There's still so much I want to explore And then I'd get lost But I'm already quite broad in my approach Photographically I also shoot nature Light and shadow and the leaves I see here now I already perceive all of this That would actually be quite interesting Just a macro series like that But in the same style you're doing street now Only in miniature Experimentally I'm completely open On one hand that's one of my strengths—seeing things from different perspectives You might wonder how does he see it this way Or by extending the line It's simply a process that continues to unfold further over the years I have absolutely no concerns about that But you're not actively thinking about it all the time are you What will it be like in twenty years right No not at this stage It's also interesting I'm not really thinking much about the next steps in my photography A motto like that Maybe you should focus more on that direction and work toward developing some series there and then immediately turn one into a book Just like Michael Wolf did—always photographing those people pushed into Tokyo's subway trains And it's stuck to the glass He only photographed it for two to three months He selected the two hundred best images from it He sent it to his publisher and said "Turn this into a book " Technically it would probably better to do so and thus more likely to succeed To produce books as well But with me it works differently I'm so versatile that I still think Around the next corner is the highlight shot I'm still utterly curious I still absolutely love going out That has truly changed over the past 20 years especially in the last decade when I've genuinely started trusting my inner gut feeling more than ever Right at the edit stage when you go through the images later It's always hard to say which photo is the best You walk through and think there was nothing to it I go through relatively quickly and everything that's more or less good Gets a G in front of it from me and slides upward My Leica photos usually all start with an L If I put a G in front of it now it moves up That's all there is to it I could also do this in Lightroom using a one-star rating right now First go through all the images Let's say I took 100 photos today Go through them and look any pictures that are this good get a 1 Then I'll go through the ones marked 1 Those I think are better get a 2 At the end maybe five more images that get a 3 I'll only edit the 3s Everything else is set aside Why should I bother with that But are you saving all these images today I'm saving the one under Today's Events But the point is I'm not handling these three I personally don't work on them Special ones I pack under the motto "well " What do we have now September October These are the good ones from October Sometime I'll go into the good ones from October and think which of the 20 is superb the ones I made in October And the first one I might work on it I try to keep as little as possible on the screen preferring instead to shoot outdoors Of the images I take I select just one There's really a lot of gut instinct involved in that I still find myself looking at it and thinking somehow it's awesome I just think it's awesome That's actually true Sometimes you realize that eventually The important thing is that you personally find the image appealing at first For me right now Then I edit it do the cut add a bit of color saturation or decide between black and white or color—things like that Then I'll post it on Instagram and see what the response is like Have you ever looked at a photo and just had no feeling for it no real connection And then later realized actually it's a real standout Yes exactly But more likely to be rare Yes it's more likely to be rare But I have a gut feeling about it because I'm human too and I think okay let's see how this works I like it but there's a lot of graphics involved and absolutely insane extremely complex Then I think it's just too much Then there are pictures where I think let me check how it works Sometimes they even go through the ceiling at's something I never would have expected I'm always like this okay maybe it really should go that way after all But in the end I always rely on my gut instinct That means I still go on my usual rounds and keep doing my usual things The coincidences we've witnessed today with this black-and-white quality simply can't be planned That a woman is standing there in a black-and-white checkered pattern in front of a building also with windows Bends down slightly gathers it all up The thing about the wheelchair under the rain where you think you're not taking any photos at all No there's someone sitting under the tree—only the wheels are visible and you think wow what a bizarre scene Or at the fish market with those certain things that happened the one who carried the plants there That was also funny Just quickly go down against the light snap That's already three shots I'd say based on gut feeling today nice I just checked the camera briefly Okay it was still nice Today I definitely had about 3 good The nice check Yes the net check I've definitely taken about three good photos today That would already be something if you think on a grand scale In the motto one picture per month—that should probably be top Now today I have three and I've got a strong gut feeling about them It's a nice day And yes But don't you also have days when You must have days when absolutely nothing goes right Nothing's really happening I hardly have that at all The thing is when I'm taking photos I also see what's there That doesn't mean the others can't see anything But it's just not good enough Or perhaps I have a certain decent level I'm always looking for the amplitudes here The upward spikes I've already reached a certain level where I always notice something Sometimes it doesn't work Or else the entire day won't work And it's all just like that But as I said then come the days when two or three will arrive at once And that's why after photographing for twenty years now you simply know you must keep going—and the next great photo will come automatically Since the level is already fairly good with me it's just well-practiced so I don't have any major worries about it That means no good photos will come out from now on Are you out on the street every day or how often do you go out At the beginning during those first ten years I was truly all-in I already did some serious stuff back then The day I truly experienced Paris Traveling by TGV to London Not just one day but a whole week in Paris Then a week in London followed by another week back in Paris By train by Eurostar But then truly just kept it simple with a 21-euro hotel near the Stade de France But I really trained extremely well there I just went ahead and did my thing I practiced and trained obsessively completely unaware even then where it was all heading I never planned on giving workshops or anything like that later on It wasn't part of the plan And now everything has just fallen into place so easily And now how often a week are you out Mostly weekends Because right now that other matter is taking up a lot of space You really have to plan ahead book in advance and keep shifting things around But I always try to go out again in the afternoon and things like that I've already managed to establish a fairly solid structure there So if possible let's go over it once more And otherwise mostly on weekends As I said the fish market for nearly 20 years So I could probably write a book about it without even trying