Dear friends,
A simple thought:
You are what you photograph.
Similarly speaking:
Just photograph your own life.
What are the repercussions of this thought?
Let us take this thought. What does it imply, and how does it implicate us?
It means you do not separate your everyday life from your photography — you simply integrate it all.
No genre
A simple thought:
Do not separate your photography into genres.
Every single genre in photography is a trap.
Why I am anti genre in photography:
It limits what you can (and ‘cannot’) photograph.
Photograph what you eat
Another simple idea:
Photograph all your meals, your coffees, and what you consume during the day.
‘You are what you eat’ is a simple piece of wisdom. Perhaps we should apply it to photography as well.
Wider edits
The reason why social media is a trap:
The strategy is to just upload (1) of your best photos a day, in order to maximize your likes in photography.
I say share MORE photos. In a single blog post, why not share a hundred, 200, 300, 400, 500 or 1000 photos? It is a simple way to 1000x your photography.
What to do with all the photos? Simple: put them together in an iMovie slideshow (.5 seconds per photo), and make your own beats in garage band to put them together.
Think of your photography as a continuum– a stream of images.
Channel your frustrations in a positive way
Whenever I’ve made a breakthrough in my photography it has always been born out of some sort of frustration. Thus let us use our annoyances, our personal frustrations, and our dis-motivations to actually motivate us!
ERIC
CONQUER STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
What futures await your photography?
Motivational books
- Zen photography — PDF DL
- Letters from a street photographer // Google drive
- Personal photography manual // PDF DOWNLOAD