Why do you photograph? What is your target?

[radiant]

Why do you photograph?

For fun?
For business?
For therapy?
For getting instagram/flickr "fame" ?
To be famous some day?
To impress people?
For only yourself and never show your work to others?
To spend time?
To have your own exhibit?
To document your family life?
To raise questions?
I don't know.
To fill up your external disks?
To store heritage in gelatin?

What is your project? What is your target? Why?

Be honest.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Why are you asking is another question, but I like how you asked

I have thousands of family pictures. I guess, for obvious reason.
I have pictures of killed by now trees. I don't know why I photograph them. I feel it is terribly wrong to kill old big trees and small forest in Canada just for profit of developers. But I just post it on my FB.
I photograph on the street. I just like to do street photography. Just because I like it. I do post few of them on Flickr and couple of forums. I'm interested in street photography just like some are interested in boating, hinting, gaming and else.
To be honest I just like to take pictures. Not for fame, but some people recognize me now by wearing of camera
Cheers

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Capturing a moment of time seems magical, almost Godlike.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Why do you photograph?

For fun?
For business?
For therapy?
For getting instagram/flickr "fame" ?
To be famous some day?
To impress people?
For only yourself and never show your work to others?
To spend time?
To have your own exhibit?
To document your family life?
To raise questions?
I don't know.
To fill up your external disks?
To store heritage in gelatin?

What is your project? What is your target? Why?

Be honest.

I have to ;it's an addiction.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

To occupy some time constructively by trying to create something.

 

[cdowell]

So many arguments in this world for disorder and ugliness, why not try to compose a single, orderly, beautiful moment and fix it as a document to your own hopefulness?

Or internet fame... either is good.

 

[Ariston]

Because my Nintendo is broken.

 

[radiant]

Why are you asking is another question, but I like how you asked

Because I'm wondering the same questions and I can't find an answer. Something pulls me. Actually, now written this sounds a bit uhm crazy..

 

[NB23]

I started at 16, with darkroom and all.

Today at 44 it has become an addiction.

And I have noticed that the lucky shots are often better than the one I shot when on a mission. Therefore shoot like crazy, nonchalantly, and there should lie the gems.

I do it because I think I’m good at it. My fanbase of three is enough to keep me going. My wife and kids seem to respect my work.
But you never know what they think deep down inside though. Nonetheless, they’re ones that are going to deal with the solid crap I’ll be leaving behind.

Haha to them.

 

[jtk]

I'm sometimes blessed.

 

[removed account4]

Why do you photograph?


Be honest.

vedostuu
I photograph mostly cause its fun . I got hooked on it when I was a kid ( was given a first camera when I was around 5, didn't start knowing what I was doing though until I was like 14? ) .. I never get tired seeing something, anything happen. Its magical. targets and subjects ? people, places and imagined things

 

[petrk]

Why do you photograph?.

Because I can't paint. It was my answer when I was young.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Because I'm wondering the same questions and I can't find an answer. Something pulls me. Actually, now written this sounds a bit uhm crazy..

Like

 

[jamesaz]

Why do you photograph?

For fun?
For business?
For therapy?
For getting instagram/flickr "fame" ?
To be famous some day?
To impress people?
For only yourself and never show your work to others?
To spend time?
To have your own exhibit?
To document your family life?
To raise questions?
I don't know.
To fill up your external disks?
To store heritage in gelatin?

What is your project? What is your target? Why?

Be honest.

At one time or another probably all of the above to some degree but mostly it's just benign escapism.

 

[macfred]

Why do you photograph?

I have never consciously thought about ...
As far as I can remember I always took photographs since I was 8 or 9 years old. It appears to be taken for granted.

 

[guangong]

To capture and document a changing world. Whatever interests me...a tree, a doorknob, a person, a building. Most, at best, will be pictures for reference. One of my current projects is documenting obesity. The average teenager today is much fatter than the fattest girl in my high school class. Same with boys.
I find formal still life photography boring, but making a structurally sound yet dynamic photograph is extremely difficult. I admire those that succeed. Drawing and paining is easier because objects in a landscape can be altered.
The main thing is to enjoy photography...no matter what your interests. Yes, it must be fun.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Because I enjoy it.

 

[logan2z]

Because I enjoy it.

+1

 

[Pieter12]

An attempt to make the representation of things more alluring than the thing itself.

 

[radiant]

Do you have any specific projects that you shoot?

I guess we have all the "narrowing" stage where you concentrate on something - then what is that?

 

[awty]

I like making things by hand and challenging my abilities, planning and creating a picture is very difficult to do well, especially if your aiming to get away from the norm. We live in a society where we congratulate each other on our shopping, I dont consider shopping much of an achievement (except maybe when you find a screaming bargain of a camera or that hard to get lens....not really) Much better to make pictures .
My project is to make pictures I can and enjoy and be proud of and if others say they like as well then thats a bonus.

 

[MattKing]

Do you have any specific projects that you shoot?

I guess we have all the "narrowing" stage where you concentrate on something - then what is that?

I photograph because my Dad started me out when I was 8, and for the last several decades I have remained intrigued, interested, entertained, satisfied and of course, sometimes frustrated by the challenges, processes, results and personal relationships that I have obtained and fostered throughout.
Some types of subjects seem to resonate with me particularly - a visit to my Photrio/APUG gallery postings will, for instance, reveal a strong fascination with trees. And I do sometimes organize my efforts with a themed show of prints in mind. In my case, however, the darkroom part of the process forms an important part of what I consider to be making a photograph. As a result, If you ask about projects, my answer is as likely to include my adventures in print making as it is to include my choices of photographic subjects.

 

[Berkeley Mike]

Setting aside my deal with the commercial devil, I shoot to validate a visual experience. At my best, I see things sometimes that don't seem to have a word to describe them but effect me. It drives me to capture and then possibly understand later in 2 dimensions.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I photograph to make me see better; when I see better, I photograph more.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I kept writing sentences and deleting them... it just comes down to enjoyment and a need to do it. Got to keep scratching the itch.