Everybody sees their city differently. What does the city look like through the eyes of The World’s Youngest Urbanist? Lulu-Sophia keeps delivering a solid flow of pure observations about city life. She also grows up in a home filled with cameras and has free access to all of them. What about putting those two things together, I thought.
Some Canon camera, be it 5 or 7D is usually lying in the window sill at our place. I often find photos on the memory card that Lulu-Sophia had taken of people out on the street in front of our flat. She just started picking up the camera and shooting. A couple of years ago I started handed her the camera when we’re riding around on the Bullitt cargo bike.
I never say what she should take photos of. I just say “take photos if you want”. Totally up to her and no big deal if she doesn’t. Sometimes I don’t notice what she does but when I load the photos onto the computer, I get to see what she sees. And it is quite wonderful.
I’ve made a little set of her street photography work on Flickr from when she was five but here are some of her shots from the urban landscape. Both from the flat and from the Bullitt.
By and large, she photographs people. Still Life must be like watching paint dry for a five year old. Humans, please. Except, perhaps, for a pretty red bicycle (farther down) that caught her eye.
People doing things. Transporting themselves, waiting for someone, observing - in their own way - their city. Humans watching humans.
There are many bicycles, mostly because it’s like shooting fish in a barrel in Copenhagen. You can’t take a shot without a bicycle in it. When shooting from the flat, she shoots cyclists and pedestrians.
And of course, the set wouldn’t be complete without a shot of your big brother, Felix.
