What do your photographs say about you as a person?

[severian]

self worth

Just print Blansky's answer to your question and carry it with you at all times.
Blansky is the man on this one
Jack

 

[Thomassauerwein]

That I have way to much time on my hands! And that I need to get a real job.

 

[unohuu]

personal insight

I take photographs of people because I have a love/hate relationship with them and I am trying to overcome any psychological blockages I have with being with other humans. Plus I am extremely excited and enthusiastic about meeting people and discovering their lives and secrets. I am fascinated by faces and often feel like a safari hunter that hunts trophies. Especially with women I find it is a good excuse for them to pay attention to me!

Ari, a very astute self-reflection. l am also fascinate with people. i work with them in such a different context that I seldom see the person hiding in the multiple layers. so that makes abstracts more natural and easy for me. Luke

 

[MurrayMinchin]

MARTIE?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Join date Oct. 2004 and 2 posts to your credit...was your other post this thought provoking?

Without having read anybody elses responses yet, I tried to answer your question from about 15 different angles and always ended up feeling like I do when I try to comprehend just how freaking big the Universe really is.

Forget the viewer. Your vision-photography-statement is all that matters. If you begin second guessing what people think of your work, you're draining energy away from forward artistic momentum and development. An artistic quicksand catch-22.

My brain hurts...yet tingles...

Murray

 

[Curt]

I was going to say... but I thought about it and decided not to share that part of my life. You see I worked as an X-Ray tech for 25 years and I hope my photographs don't show it.
When I was in photo school I was told the best preparation was to get "real Life experience". I guess I took it to heart and spent a career in Radiation Therapy and Radiology. Had to get all kind of degrees and registries and went to a medical school. This is after three degrees in Photography at the nice expensive schools. I guess being a combat veteran wasn't enough.
Best advice is follow your dream and don't take everything you are told as the absolute truth. ...Last line deleted, I'm too old and too tired to relive it all.

I could stay up all night if I had a "Photo Channel" on TV.

 

[Ed Sukach]

.... Forget the viewer. Your vision-photography-statement is all that matters. If you begin second guessing what people think of your work, you're draining energy away from forward artistic momentum and development. An artistic quicksand catch-22.

Absolutely. Well said and something to remember in LARGE TYPE.

Bravo!!!!!

 

[MattKing]

They tell others what tends to catch my eye, what I am most likely to observe, and what interests me visually.

They may give hints about the rest of my personna, but not much more.

I learned long ago that you cannot accurately predict anything outside the realm of photography about people, based solely on reviewing their work. You need additional context, and biographical information.

If I have context and additional information and personal experience with a person, exposure to their photography tends to improve the depth and breadth of my understanding of them.

 

[Uncle Bill]

tough one. Good luck finding the pattern. I take pictures of family, spaces, street, my surroundings. I want to remember the moment....

Bill

 

[davetravis]

"As a Person" ?
IMO, Artistic expression says very little about who or what we really are. In my life the values that I hold, and the way I treat others is "The Person" that I am. History is filled with great artists that were lacking in good character traits, and vice-versa.
The great are seldom famous, and the famous are seldom great...