Studying world photography, sometimes I come across biographies of photographers, where it says that they spent their whole lives shooting some one place...but at the same time they became famous. And very rarely travel photographers make interesting pictures that would become world famous.
Projecting the experience of the world's key photographers onto myself, I wonder (assuming that one day, maybe, well, suddenly I will also become famous) - is it really my universal task, my life path, to photograph Vologda region?
In general, I agree...again, provided that it will be useful to someone later.
The main thing is not to live and photograph with the expectation of fame.
In general, you should always take pictures (again, taking into account the biographies of world photographers) without counting on anything and just enjoy the process.
Somewhere I heard about a photographer who shot street scenes and when he ran out of flash drive, he erased all the pictures and continued photographing from scratch.
The process of connecting and interacting with the surrounding reality was more important to him than the pictures themselves. That's strong! This is metaphysics!
Mine is a little different.: I also study interactions and the metaphysics of perceptual processes, but I value photographs because I use them to analyze the path I've traveled a lot.
For me, a snapshot is a time machine, a memory and status code. With the help of snapshots, I try to work with status codes, with points in the past where this condition originated (pain, fear, love, happiness). The event does not change, but it is possible to influence the energy that was associated with those points in the past. I'm rewriting the memory code so that some scenarios don't work anymore, and I'm filling past experiences with new energy and meaning in order to change my current state.
After all, the past, present and future exist simultaneously...I can feel it, but I can't comprehend it...It's like I'm bumping into something, like I don't have enough brain, the processor doesn't pull...
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