Kaan Husmek
Every now and then, as a photographer, you get lucky. Saturday was one of those lucky days. I travelled from Williamstown to Aspendale to work on my ongoing The Beach Boxes project, and because these images look best in full sun – and because the boxes are, naturally, beside the beach – the area was both hot and busy with people, which meant that getting clean photographic views to the boxes wasn’t always easy, the beach being packed with people and all. I took a few hundred shots, maybe more, and was generally happy. But there was one particular spot where I thought: this image would be better if there was a person or persons standing right there, against the wall.
I asked a couple of beachgoers if they’d be interested in just standing in the right spot. Not everyone likes having their picture taken but even so, I was surprised when they separately said no. I need to work on my pitch, and sell the “art” of the idea a bit better. In any case, I gave up. I was walking away when a man named Kaan Husmek stepped in and asked me about my camera. Some people are just good people, and Kaan Husmek is a good person. I didn’t know him and he didn’t know me, but he stepped up to the plate (with his partner) and the image above is the result. I personally love this image. I snapped a few other pictures to go with it (below), as a kind of thanks. But the above is my favourite image of the day, and it will end up in the final The Beach Boxes series and on a wall one day.
