I am not a fan of presets, and yet I was amazed by this app on my phone. None of these photos have been edited by me manually - they are simply enhanced by the app. Furthermore, they are not individual photos at all.. They are stills from short videos I filmed through this app to capture what I believed were the best moments of my summer. I'm aware that these days digital quality seems to be what everybody's looking for, yet I can't help but be obsessed with grain and how it makes a photo more textured.
These are the stills from my attempts of escape. Ever since June I have been in an anxious cycle of carefree thoughts that would eventually drag me back to the good old stressful panic every evening, be it jobs, money, adulthood or just creativity and where I can go from here. Perhaps rather stupidly I spent this summer trying to take my mind off these problems by distracting myself and going on different adventures - in a car around Latvia, a few train journeys, a flight to France.
The twelve photos I took for the summer project captured my wanders. An abandoned brewery in Cēsis, finally going back home, a day spent with the people who made me - me, petrichor in the air, a sweet tooth, a flower shop, inconveniently placed beauty, a gallery filled with inspiration, the happiness of a family, a drive into the storm, moving to our new home, my home.
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