Airplanes: The Most Common Self-Imposed Human Vulnerability
on a Safe way to Travel.
Vulnerability is a state which one is open to any harm.
Under that context Airplanes (most passenger planes) create that state in most
of ways. As a passenger in a plane
is in that very last stage of a flight, when the plane is getting closer to its
destination, when the cabin pressure change, your ears “hurts” and you have to
swallow some saliva
to adjust your body with the pressure,
we all people meets in the same situation. We experience that sense of anxiety,
even though you have done in it so many times, but everybody always doubt about
all those time. You wish it will be the same, but, again, you are not sure. Will
we make it? From the land perspective, –what if it doesn’t make it? How about
it falls on a house or hit an electric wire. Or just the plane falls over us
while we drive by the airport. Imagine, that same experience is share by
roughly 11,967,120 people per day, which is the average amount of passenger
when there are 99,726 flights each day in the world. Most of everything each of them places themselves into an
open space to probably be harm.
There are so many possibilities to feel some human vulnerability
when we are concern about planes no matter where you find yourself in relation
to them.
Through my photos I want to create that same feeling, or at
least think about what we experience in that very same moment in which the
airplane is approaching the airport or destination. Don’t matter where you
position yourself, inside or outside the plane, you might feel all those
feeling at the same time. Also, I
want to portrait the paradox of statistical safety with the physical sense of
impending danger. Showing the extreme distance between the safest mode of
travel and the most horrific type of accidents found in air travel.
Each photo was taken from less than a mile from the runway.
When the photos were taken, all those plane has decrease in speed and altitude
more than 30,000 feet in less than 15 minutes, and from 600 mph to 200 mph in
the same amount of time, in a 420 ton aircraft.
To flight is the best and safest way to travel and I should
continue taking and prefer it anyways despite it carries the worst kind of
tragedy. (Most of my best friends are abroad) But that feeling, we all shares,
at that same very moment, should stay where all time has been, quietly inside
your body.
HR
