There’s a quote by Alan Kay that states that the best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Sonoma, California, 1986. Here we can see Steve Jobs talking with his team, maneuvering with his hands, hands that along with a mix of charm, charisma, bravado, hyperbole, marketing, appeasement and persistence leads us to believe almost anything, convincing others and himself. Documentary photographer Doug Menuez approached Jobs to document the efforts of Jobs and his team in the company Steve was founding after being fired from Apple, NeXT. With this company Jobs said he wanted ” some kid at Stanford to be able to cure cancer in his dorm room.”
In this composition you feel how focused Steve was about a project, quite literally, presenting three layers- one defocused on the back, one defocused on the front(hair), and Steve, focused in the middle- that lead us to the explanation the man who changed the world is giving at that moment. There’s a sense of something mystic and forward thinking on Steve’s eyes, like if you could see the future reflected in them. This photo alters my perception of time because of that reason, this was the man who made a great part of the world as we know it. It’s a photo of years ago, in which you can feel the years ahead.
