Gerald Cyrus

On Friday March 25, I attended an event which featured photographer Gerald Cyrus. He talked about his years of photography, what he loved to use as subjects and about his book. What I was most fascinated with is how the first ten years of his adult life he spent them as an accountant and was just doing photography as a hobby. It really helped me to understand that I can do anything I want and you don’t have to know what your passion is, or what you are going to do your whole life, when you are only 18 years old. What I liked most about his photography was that he mostly focused on his family and things he really loved like jazz.

The picture above was one of my favorite ones from his slideshow. What I find so interesting about this picture is that it stops time in a moment of happiness. Something that wasn’t planned or staged but just a moment in someone’s life. A moment that people look past and don’t really appreciate until the time has passed. I love that it captures the feeling of family but it also captures the feeling of happiness. When Gerald Cyrus was showing these pictures on the slideshow, this one especially caught my eye because it is such a sweet innocent moment in time.

I also really loved all of his pictures from the jazz clubs. They had such intense focus and precision and they showed the movement of the artists in such a different way. What I really love about his pictures is that you can tell he is focusing on things that he is very deeply interested in. I think it is important for photographers to capture something they love, rather than just something they think will sell. All of his pictures contain heart and soul. Every singly picture he showed were all unique and special in their own way, and I was really fascinated by his story and his career.