The Kitchen Table Series- Naomi Piedra

 On Photography 

“In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.” 

When an artist takes a photograph, they tend to play around with their art and that is the true beauty of it. They are in full control of what they want their audience to see. 

"Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads-as an anthology of Images.” 

I love this quote because I believe every picture holds a memory and every time we look at a picture that memory tends to play in our heads.

The Kitchen Table Series

“Across the scenes, Weems changes roles as others join her in the room. She moves from lover to friend to mother and to herself, alone.” 

Even though it is not a moving imagine, the artist manages to change the emotion and the mood in every picture. She manages to portray her feelings through the photographs with each person she photographs with. 

“Weems’s black-and-white photographs are like mirrors, each reflecting a collective experience: how selfhood shifts through passage of time; the sudden distance between people, both passable and impassable; the roles that women accumulate and oscillate between; how life emanates from the small space we occupy in the world.”

I really enjoyed this quote because it states exactly how much a single photograph can say. A picture can say a lot without using a single word.