Should I Stay Or Should I Go ?

• Photographer
  Adrian Schaub
• Technical Info
  Hasselblad 907x Cfv Ii 50c Xcd 120
• Photo Date
  8.6.2022

On the beach of Saint Malo (France) there is a walled-off swimming area with a picturesque diving tower. A number of local youngsters jumped off the tower into the Channel. I found the title "Should I stay or should I go" quite appropriate for the body language of the young people on the diving tower. Some of them climbed up the first steps in good spirits, their chests swollen out, only to remain standing on the first level of the diving platform in a nonchalant manner, undecided as to whether or not they would dare to jump from the top platform into the sea under the peer pressure.

The overarching theme of my photography is the children’s game “I see something you don’t see”, as I try to capture the special in the everyday. I like regular shapes and structures of any kind. I further have a weakness for the ephemeral as well as for animals and plants. In my street photography people are interchangeable anonymous actors, hence you typically don’t recognise their faces. Animals are part of the city life and their irregular activity contrasts with the regular forms of streets and buildings, whose leading lines ideally aim for a corner of the picture.