Combine that with APE's recent interview with Matt Moneypenny, talking about building and managing a photographer's brand and its got me thinking.
I'm a student still trying to figure out my voice-what I want to say, and how I want to say it. Every where I look, there are people telling me to find my thing and stick with it.
First, I haven't seen nearly enough of the world to know quite how I want to fit in it yet. On the other hand, every photog I look at and love, from Martin Parr to Richard Avedon to Andreas Gursky to W. Eugene Smith, has a very distinct style. For the most part, I could look any of their photos and say, "thats a Parr/Gursky/Avedon/Smith".
^thats a Gursky^
Where is the line drawn between developing a voice, and just shooting and doing the same thing over and over again? I'm working on a project about chairs right now (couple of images below) and I've gotten into a sort of rut as far as imagemaking goes. I take the pictures, edit them and viola, but they're starting to feel stale. Where to go from here?
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i can't believe you tacked copyrights underneath all of your photos.
classy jake.
i'll keep reading, but if you ever post about finding your voice again, i will start calling this your livejournal.
That second one is good, though.
There definitely is some blurring of the line between finding your own voice and doing the same thing over and over; I see it in writers the most, but to some extent artists and photographers, as well.
I think at this point, all you can do is do what you're doing, and if it ends up manifesting itself as a style or voice, whatever, and if you end up scrapping it, that's valuable, too.
Both these gents already carved out 99% of the intellectual territory that can accompany this post, so clearly the only thing left is to thematically call out your ignorance of compound words.
"Man was born free, but everywhere is in chains."
(And, yes, I had to delete the first one because of a typo. Not even going to come close to stopping me.)
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