There is one thing I’ve noticed since I started making photographs: after each set, I immediately feel the urge to plan a new one.
This is weird because photography has never been in my life until I started it, nearly 10 years ago (at the moment I’m writing this article). I thought the passion for a hobby could only be so intense for activities I had practiced as a teenager when all emotions and feelings were amplified.
I discovered I was wrong.
Creativity knocked at my door, and, since I let her in, she’s never gone.
And it now calls like hunger every time I send the final pictures to my models.
I find this amazing because it keeps my brain always active. It stimulates my curiosity and my interest in looking at how other artists create their works.
This translates into a constant research for inspiration, for something new, for different ways to express myself through images.
I have to say we are very lucky to live in this moment of history when content is easily gatherable and we all have an opportunity to study, be informed and document ourselves. We are flooded by images every second and the world is full of creative people who always find innovative ways to show their talent.
On the other hand, unfortunately, this endless flow of images can distract us and we risk spending less and less time looking at a picture because we have to scroll to stay up to date with all the content shared by the people we follow.
This is a shame because we end up not giving the right attention to content that deserve more than just a glance.
This is the biggest problem of the philosophy of quantity over quality.
It’s like when you eat too much and, in the end, you don’t even enjoy your meal. This overabundance of images fills the attention and one is no longer able to fully enjoy what they see.
Luckily, this is not enough to stop the pleasure of creating new images. Ideas, when properly fed with the right dose of curiosity, can easily translate into amazing creations. Which is the reason why artists do what they do.
For the pleasure of nurturing their imagination.
I do that for myself. And for you, wishing I can bring you into my world.
One image at a time.
Take care and talk soon!