Photography has been my passion ever since I was old enough to pick up a camera, but today I want to share with you the 15 most treasured photos of mine, and I didn't take any of them. There were no art directors, no stylists, no chance for reshoots, not even any regard for lighting. In fact, most of them were taken by random tourists.
Fotografija je bila moja strast odkar sem zmogel držati fotoaparat. Danes bi rad z vami delil svojih petnajst najdragocenejših slik, a nobene nisem posnel sam. Ni bilo umetniških vodij, možnosti ponovitve posnetka ali upoštevanja svetlobe. Večino fotografij so posneli naključni turisti.
My story begins when I was in New York City for a speaking engagement, and my wife took this picture of me holding my daughter on her first birthday. We're on the corner of 57th and 5th. We happened to be back in New York exactly a year later, so we decided to take the same picture.
Moja zgodba se prične, ko sem bil v New Yorku zaradi nekega predavanja. Moja žena je posnela tole fotografijo, kjer držim svojo hčer na njen prvi rojstni dan. Bili smo na vogalu 57. ulice in 5. avenije. Naključno smo se v New York vrnili točno leto dni kasneje in se odločili, da posnamemo enako fotografijo.
Well you can see where this is going. Approaching my daughter's third birthday, my wife said, "Hey, why don't you take Sabina back to New York and make it a father-daughter trip, and continue the ritual?" This is when we started asking passing tourists to take the picture.
Najbrž veste, kaj sledi. Bližal se je hčerin tretji rojstni dan in je žena predlagala, da se vrneva v New York in nadaljujeva najino tradicijo. Mimoidoče turiste sva prosila, da naju slikajo.
You know, it's remarkable how universal the gesture is of handing your camera to a total stranger. No one's ever refused, and luckily no one's ever run off with our camera.
Neverjetno, kako univerzalna je gesta, s katero popolnega neznanca prosiš za fotografijo. Nihče še ni odklonil ali pobegnil z našim fotoaparatom.
Back then, we had no idea how much this trip would change our lives. It's really become sacred to us. This one was taken just weeks after 9/11, and I found myself trying to explain what had happened that day in ways a five-year-old could understand.
Takrat se nama ni sanjalo, da bo ta izlet spremenil najino življenje. Ta tradicija nama je postala zelo pomembna. Tale je bila posneta le tedne po 11. septembru. Svoji petletnici sem skušal razložiti, kaj se je takrat zgodilo.
So these photos are far more than proxies for a single moment, or even a specific trip. They're also ways for us to freeze time for one week in October and reflect on our times and how we change from year to year, and not just physically, but in every way. Because while we take the same photo, our perspectives change, and she reaches new milestones, and I get to see life through her eyes, and how she interacts with and sees everything. This very focused time we get to spend together is something we cherish and anticipate the entire year.
Te fotografije so mnogo več kot spomini na določen trenutek ali izlet. Omogočijo nama, da ustaviva čas za teden dni v oktobru. Da razmisliva, kaj sva doživela in kako sva se spremenila. V vsakem pogledu, ne le navzven. Ko posnameva enako fotografijo, se najin pogled na svet spremeni. Hči dosega nove mejnike, jaz pa lahko vidim življenje skozi njene oči. Spoznam, kako se sporazumeva in opazuje. Tega časa, ki ga bova preživela skupaj, se veseliva celo leto.
Recently, on one trip, we were walking, and she stops dead in her tracks, and she points to a red awning of the doll store that she loved when she was little on our earlier trips. And she describes to me the feeling she felt as a five-year-old standing in that exact spot. She said she remembers her heart bursting out of her chest when she saw that place for the very first time nine years earlier. And now what she's looking at in New York are colleges, because she's determined to go to school in New York. And it hit me: One of the most important things we all make are memories.
Na nedavnem izletu sva se sprehajala in ona se nenadoma ustavi. S prstom pokaže na rdeč baldahin nad trgovino z igračami, ki jo je imela tako rada na naših prejšnjih izletih. Povedala mi je, kako se je počutila, ko je kot petletnica stala na tem kraju. Rekla je, da ji je srce močno razbijalo, ko je trgovino zagledala prvikrat pred devetimi leti. Zdaj pa v New Yorku išče primerno fakulteto, ker je odločena, da bo tam študirala. Zadelo me je. Ena najpomembnejših stvari je ustvarjanje spominov.
So I want to share the idea of taking an active role in consciously creating memories. I don't know about you, but aside from these 15 shots, I'm not in many of the family photos. I'm always the one taking the picture. So I want to encourage everyone today to get in the shot, and don't hesitate to go up to someone and ask, "Will you take our picture?" Thank you. (Applause)
Zato želim, da aktivno sodelujete pri ustvarjanju spominov. Če odštejem teh petnajst slik, sem redko prisoten na družinskih fotografijah. Ponavadi sem jaz tisti, ki fotografira. Zato želim danes vse spodbuditi, da stopite pred kamero tudi sami. In naj vam ne bo nerodno neznanca vprašati: "Bi naju lahko fotografirali?" Hvala. (Aplavz)