Emotion and Photography

Today I read an article and it reminded me that I was supposed to write about this topic for a while now.

Emotion - photography - art in general. What are the greatest songs? which are the songs we love most no matter what time or age we live in? They’re the songs that touch our hearts, reverberate in our souls. Those songs can only have that impact if the artist felt it when they created it, that’s because our emotions and relationships are reflected in what we create. And like any art or craft, the way we experience the world is reflected in our photography. This makes me reflect on my own work and I always consider that my photos have recurring themes and elements. I find that I perform best when in solitude and alone with nature and landscapes; I enjoy the immense, the pristine, the undiscovered, the natural elements, the ancient. For that reason, I consider my best work to be nature and landscape photography. That’s not to say I don’t love the street, or culture, but I’ve just known that to be my first love in photography, and that’s what I’ve been working on passionately for a few years now.

I enjoy making memories of the landscapes I experience, and I enjoy bringing the unexplored and undocumented parts of our precious landscape for the rest of the world to appreciate. I feel it’s necessary because there is greater appreciation and understanding of something that you know exists. We need to know what we have, or I fear we may lose it due to sheer ignorance.

Now, this takes me to street photography and documenting our social condition and everyday lifestyle. The truth is that most of my photographs of the street right now are quite random - I photograph what I feel will be interesting, and hope that those photographs can have some meaning, and reason for existing.

I’ve only really started taking to the streets this year for photos, and I consider most of it practice, but in this period of practicing I hope that some of that work is meaningful and represents what I wanted to capture as accurately as possible - not only in the sense of documenting what transpired, but also the mood of the moment, even if only to a fractional extent.