Originally posted by Mareket I don't know if this is the relevant section for this, but I'm interested to hear whether other people have dealt with a feeling of futility in photography? And how they've overcome photographer's block. ......I feel like I just can't make a photograph I'm particularly happy with, predominantly because I don't know what it is that I want the photograph to do. Why do you take photographs?
Good question and tough to answer.
Photography, for me, has never been about photography, it's been about art. I've been trying to figure out what art is for a long time and I keep coming back to discovery, to revealing the unseen. I think artists see what most don't and if you get it right, it resonates with viewers. My view of judging it is two questions: Is it a good idea and is it well executed.
But why me? Its all been done. First, I think we have in us an innate desire to express ourselves. To do it well is generally hard work because there is a lot to learn and it isn't so easy. . But every once in awhile, it all works and the result is meaningful. Key to all of his is finding something you care about. Really care about, enough so that time and labor aren't noticed.
Dance, by accident, became my muse. Its portraiture, really. I never tire of it and theater and the stories and the people. I made it a business, my last career and I'm still learning and discovering every day. I cannot imagine being bored.