Photography is an art.
I've always viewed myself as an artist of sorts, despite having no talent in the fields most associated with the word. I can't paint. I can't sculpt. And any student who has ever witnessed my stick-figure horse will attest to the fact that I certainly can't draw.
It wasn't until I got my first camera, a basic digital Canon camera, that I fell in the love the art of taking pictures. Initially, I wanted to record every moment, keeping a collection of stills from every occasion in fear that I would forget the time of life. It wasn't until later that I realized I wasn't saving the memory of these moments by documenting them, but solely creating moments for picture purposes only. I was killing moments left and right in order to achieve a photograph. And this brought about my philosophy when it comes to photography:
It wasn't until I got my first camera, a basic digital Canon camera, that I fell in the love the art of taking pictures. Initially, I wanted to record every moment, keeping a collection of stills from every occasion in fear that I would forget the time of life. It wasn't until later that I realized I wasn't saving the memory of these moments by documenting them, but solely creating moments for picture purposes only. I was killing moments left and right in order to achieve a photograph. And this brought about my philosophy when it comes to photography:
Let the moment live.
Taking pictures isn't about freezing the moment, but rather, giving that moment life. Giving the silent a voice, the small the space to dance. Photography makes life simple. It takes the big picture--our existence and environment--and breaks it down into the tinier, but most essential puzzle pieces. To quote one of my favorite poet's, Tyler Knott Gregson, "I've always tried to reduce big moments that are filled with emotion, to tiny fragments. Show the whole by showing the parts, as it were. In the same vein, I have always tried to show tiny moments, little blink-and-you'll-miss-them seconds, as the big, important things that matter most."
A look.
A memory.
A connection.
A feeling.
A memory.
A connection.
A feeling.