The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
There are photographers who don't really engage with their subject. It's a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they leave with it. It works but I think it ultimately limits how profound the work can be.
Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.
I think that something photographers find about me is that I work really hard to make sure I know what they want before I start shooting.
I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.