in this self-centric society today where everyone is trying to get attention to themselves through various kind of social medias and in this fast pace modern day where achievement is seen as everything, watching saul leiter approach to life and to art is very much like an oasis to the soul. seen as one of the pioneer of colored photography in the 50s, he said "i mean i think i’m being sincere when i say that i’ve never been driven. i didn’t walk around feeling that i was an important. i had not spent my life feeling important. what does that mean? i was hoping to be forgotten. i aspired to be unimportant".
i watched this humble documentary twice to take note and to remind myself to not take things too seriously. "i don’t know. i’m not supposed to worry about it. i’m allowed not to worry". i guess i'm just not the kind of person who is inspired by a 23 year old kid who invent apps and sold it for billions. or a successful architect who built an iconic building reviving a city. or the first woman of minority who won certain kind of award. but i'm more than inspired by people like saul or bill cunningham, who lived their life with such simple attitude, and for the love of what they are doing, they just live to create, not for achievement or recognition. not for other people but for themselves. in the end, what's not to love about a person who described himself as, "a lost and confuse person who sometimes uses camera, with a touch of intelligence, but not so much."
