Un/Taken ep. 7 Gery Smismans

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This topic is about the photo you did not take. If you haven’t seen the previous episodes, read those stories here.

For this episode we hear the story of Gery Smismans, a photographer from Belgium and Fellow Substack author. He will tell us about his photos, taken and untaken.

Here we go.

Untaken

Which photo was untaken and why did you not take it?

Some years ago I visited New York. I stayed over at a friend who lived there in a apartment on the fourth floor, in the vicinity of Columbia University.

Our morning routine looked like this: get up, yawn, walk to the kitchen and sigh deeply at the thought of the effort it would take to make coffee. Instead, still in our underwear, we walked out and took the elevator to the basement, where we wandered for half a minute through barely lit hallways that led to a staircase. At the end of it was a door that opened directly in the Appletree Supermarket, on the co…