Girls
Emory E.
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This summer I watched these three girls playing in the sand dunes and as they began to all run to the water togther, I was inspired to take a photo. I wanted to capture the way they ran as if no one was watching. I’ve noticed that as you get older, you become more self conscious of they way you present your body to the world. You become aware of what the world sees and what “imperfections” they might judge you on. But as a little kid, these things aren’t so clear to us yet, what we care about, and say, and wear is shaped not by what we think others will like, but what makes us feel happy. As a fifteen year old girl, I would not run in a bathing suit to the water like no one was watching, because in my brainwashed mind, everyone is watching me, judging my folds and sloppy hair. So instead, I captured these three girls whose biggest concern was not how the looked, but who could get in the water first.
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Photography helps me to see the true beauty of the world. It reminds me that it is not the perfect body, perfect life, perfect hair or smile, but the love with which the world is full of, the embrace after a long separation, or a rose growing in the concrete.
