{"id":71990,"date":"2017-12-04T05:11:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=71990"},"modified":"2017-12-04T05:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:13:06","slug":"photography-as-a-tool-of-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/photography-as-a-tool-of-empowerment\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography as a Tool of Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"

To feel more control and autonomy in our lives \u00e2\u20ac\u201d what better solution than to make photos?<\/p>\n

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\n DOWNLOAD PDF: Photography as a tool of empowerment<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Self empowerment: a feeling that you have inner power and inner control over your surroundings and how you live your life.<\/p>\n

Ways we feel disempowered : lack of control in our lives (job controlling us, rather than us controlling our jobs). Lack of purpose or drive in life. Lack of a reason to wake up in the morning.<\/p>\n

Solution: to wake up every morning, excited, and empowered to actually know that you can control your life.<\/p>\n

How can photography help?<\/h2>\n

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Photography: the camera as a tool to capture and create our own visual reality. Having the power to control what is inside the frame. Having the power of a sculptor \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you decide which parts of reality to keep, which parts to chisel away, and how to frame your own reality.<\/p>\n

Excitement in life: the excitement of exploring the world, with your camera in hand. The excitement of seeing new and novel things. The excitement of rearranging reality in new and novel and innovative ways (innovative compositions). After all, composition is just how you arrange visual elements in a frame.<\/strong> Kind of how a composer arranges notes and melodies to make great music. Or consider the composition of your food \u00e2\u20ac\u201d how are the elements of the nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen arranged<\/em> in your food?<\/p>\n

You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the right path.<\/h2>\n
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Embrace failure. Spread from MASTERS<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Self empowerment in photography is also having self-confidence in yourself, and having confidence in your own photos.<\/p>\n

For example, look at your own pictures and ask yourself,<\/p>\n

\n Do I like my own photos?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If yes, then consider yourself on a very good path. Consider that there are many master photographers who make really good photos, but they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like their own photos. They are the most tormented.<\/p>\n

Have fun in your photographic process<\/h2>\n
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Do not define yourself \/. Spread from MASTERS by HAPTICPRESS<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To be frank, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather be a childlike photographer, making \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photos, but having fun in the process, instead of being the pro photographer who makes good photos but feels miserable in the process.<\/p>\n

I think there is this false notion of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153suffering artist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d that somehow to be a fully realized artist, you need to be sad and miserable. I disagree.<\/p>\n

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I think you \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you as a visual artist and photographer \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you need to feel strong, empowered, and self-confident. You need to have huge inner power, a huge chest and shoulders to carry any burden. You have muscles abounding, both physically and also visual muscles. Your pictures and art as a verification of the beauty and joy of life. Your pictures encourage others to feel empowered.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

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To conclude, ask yourself the question,<\/p>\n

\n Do my photos make me happier, more joyful, and more excited to live?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then secondly,<\/p>\n

\n Do my photographs empower my viewer to see the world in a more meaningful and purposeful way?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

EMPOWER,
\nERIC<\/p>\n

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