Human photography essay

Photos Aren’t Sacred, They’re Profane

Why do we falter as photographers and visual artists? Our sucker mistake:

Believing that photos are sacred.

In fact, photos are profane. No sacred quality to them. Let us go BEYOND this basic romantic (French, Henri Cartier-Bresson notion). Photos are just art works!

ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.