ERIC KIM

MAKE MORE PHOTOS // LOOK LESS AT THE PHOTOS OF OTHERS

Saigon, 2017

Ok, imma essay some ideas on photography and the purpose of life.

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  1. It is a fact that we are alive. We are alive right now. We will die one day. What should we do with our time?
  2. In our free time, we should be ACTIVE, and CREATE MEANING in our lives.
  3. A good way to create meaning in life: MAKE PHOTOS. Why photos? It is easy. We can all do it with our phones or cameras.
  4. Happiness in life is a sense of PROGRESS. By improving our photography, we find more happiness and GROWTH in life.
  5. To have more fun, we need more CHALLENGE in photography. To add more DEPTH, LAYERS, and visual complexity to our images.
  6. Sometimes the best way to make better photos is to make more SIMPLE photos. It is more difficult to make a blissful, SIMPLE photo…compared with a cluttered photo.

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For me, I have more joy in making my own photos, than looking at the photos of others.

First proposition: Make more photos, and look less at the photos of others.

Looking at the photos can inspire us. Which is good. But we certainly want to be CREATORS, not consumers.

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But how can we inspire ourselves to MAKE MORE PHOTOS and MAKE MORE ART?

Think less, shoot more.

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