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image via google search for “Poetically Decayed Interiors”
“spending several months living among a [ENTER CULTURAL SUBGROUP HERE] people, examining their inner life by photographing a mix of rural social landscape, portraits, and poetically decayed interiors”
- Northern Exposures via Blake Andrews
Could describe an awful lot of projects.
You guys know how I feel about subject matter ruling photography. I just don’t… feel that I’m talented if everyone loves a photo just because I happened to be standing in front of a fresh kill or something. Being in the right place just isn’t enough for me as a photographer. I want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, the boring time maybe, and still somehow say something. I don’t know.
It’s probably why all I’ve been doing lately is writing. I want to know what it’s like to create something from nothing, or at least as close as possible. I’m tired of feeling like I’m just pointing. I like pointing (it’s what I’m doing every time I click “share” on google reader), but I can’t just point. Or even just point well. You dig?
It’s not like there’s anything without a history and context though. Frustrating. I’m going through a frustrating time with my work – that’s safe to say.
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March 1 2010, 07:56:38 UTC 2 years ago
I have always found it difficult to simply photograph beautiful things. The art is already there, I just happened to capture it for the most part. Sometimes, I can make things beautiful only because I happened to look at it from a particular angle, or because I caught a moment no-one else saw or would have ever seen again without me. But too much of photography (outside of the human subject, which is something really difficult for me too- I could talk more on that but I will be succint) seems to just be capturing things that are already there for people to see anyway. It's difficult to maneuver.
March 1 2010, 20:42:00 UTC 2 years ago
Increasingly I've been having issues because it's just not enough for an image to be beautiful, for me.
I've gotten skilled enough technically that it's fairly easy for me to make something that the average person takes an aesthetic interest in - and I've become very aware of how many people have the ability to do that. What seems so much harder is making something that people will be interested in, is beautiful (in some way) and is also somehow philosophically fulfilling to me. It doesn't need to be high concept, but I want to make work with substance.
March 3 2010, 02:42:45 UTC 2 years ago
March 3 2010, 06:31:02 UTC 2 years ago
Here's a little backstory:
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_
March 3 2010, 06:52:41 UTC 2 years ago
March 3 2010, 07:04:03 UTC 2 years ago
Context is a strange thing. Knowing what you know now, you'll probably never think of that image in exactly the same way again. In this case, it might be a more powerful thought. But the context could have been something totally different.
It's why images on the internet can have a bhuge force of their own, because they're so often so entirely detached from context that they seem to be extremely disturbing, epic, or hilarious.