{"id":68084,"date":"2017-10-30T02:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=68084"},"modified":"2017-10-29T21:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T04:01:10","slug":"how-to-find-your-unique-vision-in-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/how-to-find-your-unique-vision-in-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Your Unique Vision in Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Your voice is unique \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the focus of your photography shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be to discover a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d voice or vision in photography. No, the focus you should have is to better understand<\/em> and better listen to your own voice and vision in photography.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

ERIC KIM EXPERIENCE ><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Man<\/p>\n

How do you see the world? What kind of glasses do you perceive reality through?<\/p>\n

Do you see a positive, optimistic, and joyful world? Or do you perceive a pessimistic, depressing, and shitty world?<\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/p>\n

Do you seek to capture your own unique version of reality? Or do you wish to change reality<\/em> with your camera?<\/p>\n

Are you satisfied with the real world around you, or dissatisfied?<\/p>\n

Your vision is the right vision.<\/h2>\n

\"Cindy<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think there is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153right\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wrong\u00e2\u20ac\u009d way to see the world.<\/p>\n

\n There is only your unique vision of the world. That is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real\u00e2\u20ac\u009d world\u00e2\u20ac\u201d your unique perspective.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your job and duty as a photographer is:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. To better understand what your vision is <\/li>\n
  2. To share that vision with others <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Visual tyrant<\/h2>\n
    \"Cindy
    Cindy and arms. Saigon, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    As an artist, you are a visual tyrant\u00e2\u20ac\u201d you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to convince others that your vision of the world is interesting, unique, and important. And to share that vision with others, you need to make powerful pictures \u00e2\u20ac\u201d pictures that give people a muscular reaction (one that makes people smile, frown in disgust, or something that causes someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyeballs to dilate in surprise).<\/p>\n

    \"Doll
    Doll in plastic wrap. Sapa, Vietnam 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    I recommend when you share your pictures with other people in real life, study their facial reactions when looking at your pictures.<\/strong> People lie with their words, but they never lie with their faces or their eyes.<\/p>\n

    \"Hands
    Hands of a 92 year old woman. Hanoi, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Extreme responses<\/h2>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    As a visual artist, you want to elicit a REACTION in your viewer. If your pictures give your viewer a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tepid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (lukewarm) response, you have failed. You need to elicit a strong reaction in your viewer \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you either want your viewer to really love your picture, or really hate it. Extreme reactions, no \u00e2\u20ac\u0153meh\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or indifferent reactions.<\/p>\n

    Trust your own inner-vision<\/h2>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Of course, this is all my opinion. I am writing you this letter to encourage you to think more critically about your photography and pictures.<\/p>\n

    Ultimately, form your own opinion about your own pictures, and stay faithful to your unique vision in photography.<\/p>\n

    So friend, do you know what makes your vision of the world unique? Do you have the faith and confidence to share that vision with others\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven though it may piss others off?<\/p>\n

    BE STRONG,
    \nERIC<\/p>\n

    ERIC KIM EXPERIENCE ><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Your voice is unique \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the focus of your photography shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be to discover a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d voice or vision in photography. No, the focus you should have is to better understand and better listen \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/81B1A476-2E85-4636-8032-FB77D0CFDAC4.jpeg?fit=2000%2C1345&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68086,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084\/revisions\/68086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}