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Photography | Journal
Photography has increasingly become a part of my life. As I learn more about it though, its process and how it has changed the way we view life, I am conflicted.
I love photography. It is a beautiful way to preserve a moment in time that will never happen again. It can be soft or precise, show a minute detail with incredible clarity or encapsulate a wider angle of life then our minds can fully process. It can be powerful, stirring memories and emotions.
It the same time, our culture has made the sacred banal. Our images become lost in the ever present stream of media that we process each day. We flick through pictures faster than we can fully grasp what is taking place. A photograph becomes cheap - only worthy of a few seconds or a second glance.
How can I give meaning back to the photograph? What can I do to stir something inside the viewer, causing reflection or response, rather than numbness? How do I embrace my role as a photographer while I struggle with the issues of excessive images and an already media saturated environment?
I love photography. It is a beautiful way to preserve a moment in time that will never happen again. It can be soft or precise, show a minute detail with incredible clarity or encapsulate a wider angle of life then our minds can fully process. It can be powerful, stirring memories and emotions.
It the same time, our culture has made the sacred banal. Our images become lost in the ever present stream of media that we process each day. We flick through pictures faster than we can fully grasp what is taking place. A photograph becomes cheap - only worthy of a few seconds or a second glance.
How can I give meaning back to the photograph? What can I do to stir something inside the viewer, causing reflection or response, rather than numbness? How do I embrace my role as a photographer while I struggle with the issues of excessive images and an already media saturated environment?
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