Photography
When I was 10 years old my uncle gave me
my first camera. The camera he gave me was an early Sony digicam. Needless to say, I took a lot of really bad photos. But having a camera made me conscious about my surroundings much more.
Although I indeed took some terrible photos at first, I think having my own camera so early in life had a big impact on me. It even fed my life-long curiosity for the world around me. Looking up is fun and can reveal a whole new world, even in a place where you’ve been walking
a hundred times
Really, at the core of what intrigues me about photography are people and time. Photography is the closest thing we’ve got to time travel I think. Not only can photography capture a moment in time, later to be recalled, but photography has this magical way of creating a picture that paints a moment in time in the way you experienced it, the way you felt about that moment.
Good photography to me tells some sort
of story. The story part is hidden and
faint, the sort of stuff that you don’t yet
have words for in your mind but you
know so well.
I still take bad photos — but now I call it
intentional composition and hope no one
asks too many questions. Occasionally it
works. More often, it doesn't — but at least
it’s blurry in an artistic sort of way.
In any case, I keep clicking. It’s cheaper than therapy and, strictly speaking, the camera is already paid for.
