I loved owning a car as a young adult. I savoured the sensations of inhabiting that space on wheels — and boy did I love listening to music while driving. But I hated how traffic jams reduced hours of my life into the absurd antithesis of the joyful freedom my car was supposed to incarnate. In a collective perspective, there is no doubt that effective and accessible public transport is a much better option than resorting to an individual vehicle for just about any trip no matter how short. I opted for a car-sharing platform that was a perfect fit for my limited needs: you could easily get a car for the weekend getaway or the day when you had to move a weighty thing. In no time, owning a car became an obsolete idea, a myth of the old days that no longer made sense.
As a photographer, however, I still find cars interesting to observe: after all, even after losing faith, you might still marvel at the statues in the chapel, the admiration at present directed towards their aesthetic qualities rather than the belief they once inspired. Occasionally, cars will appear in my images, and I’ve gathered a few of these photographs for the car week that photographer Josh Weinberg is organising on Substack.
In Florence, Italy
In Lisbon, Portugal
To see more from the car week, go to https://randomcapture.substack.com/p/carweek
That’s all for now, folks. The Tales will be back soon.
Pierre François D.