BY BERT STEPHANI
It happened, I turned 50. In the run-up to this big birthday, I kept saying that it didn’t affect me. But then it dawned on me that it actually does effect me. Just not in a negative way. I’m completely fine with turning 50, I find it amusing and interesting. It feels a bit like I’m on the outside looking at someone who is half a century old and wonder what it would be like. I can’t really explain, I don’t really understand. And then there’s only one thing to do … grab a camera.
I decided to turn my 50th voyage around the sun into a photography project, probably a book. To kick off the project I went on a one week photo trip to the French coast armed with just a manual 50mm lens (what else?) to start figuring out which directions to go. I shot just for myself, without any research, no plans. Just to see where my intuition would take me.
