helby: I see. And when you put a camera on someone, on someone’s face, people can have different reactions to it. One reaction they can have is to move into more of a performance mode. In some ways it’s clear you want to bring a certain authenticity, a certain realness, to what you’re doing, but at the same time by introducing the camera where people are aware they’re being shot, it could encourage people to exaggerate and to perform certain kinds of roles that they might be expected to play, or to play roles that they aren’t expected to play because the camera is in front of them. I wonder how you think about that and navigate that when you’re shooting?
Allah: I think that it definitely happens. I mean I used to be a candid photographer and take my shots from a distance without any permis- sion. Now I break the ice and I tell them I’m a filmmaker, I’m a pho- tographer. May I please take a portrait of you? I’m working on a book, or I’m working on a film. But the thing is, in Harlem on that corner it’s like you can’t take your attention off of the reality going on. There may be a photographer in front of you, but you still have to deal with the immediate reality. So even though I got the permission, and they know I’m taking a photograph, it’s still candid to a degree.
Sometimes it was a fine line between it being candid and posed. But I just feel like the neighborhood itself is so alive. When you see the film it’s in slow motion, but that’s also because the area is such a fast-paced
area. You’ve got so many sirens, ambulances speeding past, and police and people running in and out of the subway station, you know. So to see it slower kind of presented a different perspective where you could kind of extract the beauty from it. But yeah, when you put the camera on a person they know that there’s a cam-
era on them and they’re going to behave a certain way. But it has to do with the people themselves. I feel like the intimacy in this film is real. In the past I’ve had questions of exploitation and, you know, whether this was sincere or not, but I feel like when you watch the film, the people speak for them- selves. And you could tell that it’s predi- cated on real relationships that I had to achieve over time.
helby: I see. And when you put a camera on someone, on someone’s face, people can have different reactions to it. One reaction they can have is to move into more of a performance mode. In some ways it’s clear you want to bring a certain authenticity, a certain realness, to what you’re doing, but at the same time by introducing the camera where people are aware they’re being shot, it could encourage people to exaggerate and to perform certain kinds of roles that they might be expected to play, or to play roles that they aren’t expected to play because the camera is in front of them. I wonder how you think about that and navigate that when you’re shooting?Allah: I think that it definitely happens. I mean I used to be a candid photographer and take my shots from a distance without any permis- sion. Now I break the ice and I tell them I’m a filmmaker, I’m a pho- tographer. May I please take a portrait of you? I’m working on a book, or I’m working on a film. But the thing is, in Harlem on that corner it’s like you can’t take your attention off of the reality going on. There may be a photographer in front of you, but you still have to deal with the immediate reality. So even though I got the permission, and they know I’m taking a photograph, it’s still candid to a degree.Sometimes it was a fine line between it being candid and posed. But I just feel like the neighborhood itself is so alive. When you see the film it’s in slow motion, but that’s also because the area is such a fast-pacedarea. You’ve got so many sirens, ambulances speeding past, and police and people running in and out of the subway station, you know. So to see it slower kind of presented a different perspective where you could kind of extract the beauty from it. But yeah, when you put the camera on a person they know that there’s a cam-era on them and they’re going to behave a certain way. But it has to do with the people themselves. I feel like the intimacy in this film is real. In the past I’ve had questions of exploitation and, you know, whether this was sincere or not, but I feel like when you watch the film, the people speak for them- selves. And you could tell that it’s predi- cated on real relationships that I had to achieve over time.
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