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Posted: 29 Mar 2015

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Smells like teen spirit

Smells like teen spirit
Instead of quoting a famous philosopher or more Nirvana here, I'll just say that I am likely to shoot my first moustache in this one. I was 17 or so. Lighting is a total accident, literally: municipal electric supply was flimsy in those days, and lights flickered every night.

I have lost the negative so I scanned it from a proof I made back then. As a result there is plenty of blind black in the dark end. But it was winter and dark anyway, so it kind of fits, I guess.

York, Jean-luc Drouin, , and 24 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Ch'an
Ch'an
Excellent autoportrait, adolescent au coeur sombre ....:)))
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Ch'an
Thank you, Didier. It is slightly on the dark side, I would guess. :-D
9 years ago.
 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club
He he! Very good teen spirit! I suppose I should/could post something similar... When I look back to my old photographs, they look surprisingly innovative. I guess around twenties people are rather creative.
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… club
You should, Sami!
Perhaps we are the most creative as children. Then things like photography just don't interest us yet. After that it is just a veeeeery slow downhill... :-)
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
 beverley
beverley
yes it fits indeed ... and not dissimilar to the one you found and commented
on ;-) sothanks for that .... it certainly has captured the "essence" of youth that
is seen in young lads ;-) I am sure most mothers with sons would look at this
and say ... oh yes ... I recognise that look ;-)
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to beverley
Smells like international teen spirit to me! :-)
I sometimes wonder if I started photographing to get rid of that teeny-whiny-weeny feeling! :-D
9 years ago.
beverley has replied to Spo
perhaps you did I don't know but at that age when many are potentially shy ;-)
then it takes courage to take a photo of yourself but as we get older we can
look back and smile ... and perhaps ...................... think wistfully ;-)
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to beverley
Even though I have no need to relive those days, I would like to go back and tell him about life, certain things I know now, but which nobody ever told him. That would make his life easier later. Wistful... yes, I guess. :-)
9 years ago.
beverley has replied to Spo
if we knew too much in advance of what was to come ... I think we we
would or could be quite fearful ... yes it would make us hopefully make some
right choices ... but sometimes what we think are right at the time ... turn out
differently ... I have thought about this also ... ;-) I think in some things ...
its best not to know ... just like not knowing what is in front of us now as
we get older ... we would be fearsome of so many things ... yes ?
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to beverley
You are right of course. I would be very careful and tell him only general things, not about any particular obstacles he'll bump into or how to cope with them. If I did, I would jeopardize my very own existence, wouldn't I? :-)
9 years ago.
beverley has replied to Spo
ah .... you already have a wise head on young shoulders ;-)))))

(excuse my humour ;-)
9 years ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
happy to be back to your wonderful photos:)
9 years ago.
 Don Sutherland
Don Sutherland club
Outstanding shot.
9 years ago.
 Christel Ehretsmann
Christel Ehretsmann club
an excellent title and kind memory towards the romantic teenager you were...
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Christel Ehretsmann club
Thank you, Christel. The unwritten law of the teen spirit of course dictates that I'm much more kind to him now than he was to himself back then. :-)
9 years ago.
 Eefje
Eefje
Sorry, when I look at this photo I forget about the moustache and/or the light.
All the attention is drawn to the eyes, the staring gaze. Only one word comes up, intense.
This is truly a wonderful intriguing photo.
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Eefje
To me he just looks sullen. At that time I had already found out I didn't mind appearing before audiences – which you really cannot tell looking at this! 15 years later that kid lectured in an art university, always without papers, and enjoyed every minute of it. :-)
9 years ago.
Eefje has replied to Spo
That makes this photo even more valuable for you. I sometimes read my diaries again, now and then it feels like I'm reading about a different person.
9 years ago.
Spo has replied to Eefje
Experiences and memories of them are from 1st person point of view, and when you write a diary you of course save them as such. But when you read the diary years later you read it like any book – that is you look at the events from above, from a 3rd person pov like you were a fly in the ceiling. That can be very confusing, and at worst you end up messing your precious memories.
9 years ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Fascinating portrait.
9 years ago.
 dolores666
dolores666 club
Who's a pretty boy, then? :-) Great chiaroscuro, toots.
9 years ago.
 Spo
Spo
I bow to thee, dear Ranger. I'd rather say that when one shoots a lot during the decades, something is bound to work out now and then. This picture is a good example: I never saw anything particular in it, just the annoying old self, but over the years I started to notice that people had these funny little reactions to it.
9 years ago.
 Xata
Xata club
Lots of expression in the eyes... a very good self-portrait.
7 years ago.
 Christel Ehretsmann
Christel Ehretsmann club
something of Adam Driver's seduction
4 years ago.
Spo has replied to Christel Ehretsmann club
Now that you mention it...
But only "something"? :D
4 years ago.

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