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Emptiness and other questions
While scrolling through a classmates last exhibition, suddenly it popped up to me what photography does with me.
I dare to say that my photography makes me wonder every day.
Being graduated as a documentary photographer and studying in an art school makes me question myself over and over.
Does a picture have to be beautiful?
Does it have to tell something?
And what if it has to tell something, what does it tell?
I watched so many pictures lately, and really they are so beautiful.
But it is the only thing I can say about it They are beautiful
They are like magazine pictures that track our attention and seconds later, the attention drops. Nothing keeps our mind there.
Emptiness.
I guess thats what disturbs me most. We like to show were an empty throw away society. But by playing the game and being empty in our pictures we dont keep the attention. We dont point out what it is really about.
We dont look for the story anymore.
Growing up in todays world is equal to being overwhelmed with images.
Images that want us to buy, or stick things in our throat.
I am convinced that we have to teach our children how to watch the world, how to make interpretations, because surely they dont know anymore.
To come back to my photography: I am sure I can make a book full of nice pictures, just grab them from my photoblog, ordinary things.
Have an exhibition with them.
Have people say Beautiful picture
But will it make me happy?
Will I have the feeling I achieved something in life?
I dont believe so.
So let me stick to what I am busy with. Trying it my way.
And I guess the part where I am in peoples heads instead of on peoples walls is more important to me.
The part where E.T point his finger to the boys head, and it lightens up I am in here when he is going home.
I hope that one day Ill be in there.
More than I hope to have my picture on your wall
I truly believe that this stream in art will disappear very quickly, as people tend to ask for more than emptiness.
When people will look at a piece of art, smile and say it is beautiful, and seconds later wonder what it is about. And truly find something then.
So by the end of this year, I want to collect some pictures, maybe only 1, that makes you question this world.
The rest is just empty filling of what never has been.
Posted on January 21, 2004
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I wonder how you can make people questioning the world.
Even by showing beautiful pictures, certain people can be amazed by them, and therefore, by the world. They've never seen the world like that. You offer them a new view on the world.
What do you want to show them? What do you want them to question?
You want to be in people's mind, rather then on people's wall. Well, when you're on there wall, you'll remind them of you every day, or better, you remind them of this view on the world every day.
Which is more important: that people think of you, look up to you, know you or that people look up to the the world and become conscious of certain things that are happening in the world - beautiful or not.
I believe in photography, rather then in the subjects that are being photographed. What I want to say is that your pictures are more then just beautiful. Maybe not for you, but maybe for other people they are.
Try not to be too ambitious.
You're doing great. Do something with your stuff. Show it.
Good luck!
Posted by Elke | January 23, 2004 5:09 PM