Gone fishing, Arromanches, France 2006. © Knut Skjærven
A key term in phenomenology is the term intentionality.
Bracketing your vision in the natural attitude you are able to embrace the world in the phenomenological attitude.
You reach the basic structures of consciousness.
Looking at the photograph above in the natural attitude you see what is there: people on a beach. You can even count the people that are there.
Embrace the same thing in the phenomenological attitude you see all that is there but also all that is not there.
You see the visible as well as the invisible.
You know there are plenty more people around on the beach and in the world even if they are not within the frame.
They are so to speak in the fringes of the frame.
You realise that what is there to be seen links to what is there not to be seen.
These things you are aware of if you shoot in the phenomenological attitude.
After a while you don't have to think about it. It comes naturally.
If this sounds tricky look at it a permanent openness that binds you to the world and vice versa.
Without these openness there would be nothing.
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