Clocks for Seeing

B&W Street Photography

In Camera Lucida, Barthes says:

…cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

There’s something nice about seeing a slow shutter as a clock or a stopwatch. I have been shooting more b&w, and always have been shooting at 1/60th of a second. These images aren’t ever how the world appears - it’s like I’m capturing a different layer of the energy of the city.