Photography is a skill that is gained through practice and experience. The fact that we can now produce beautiful images of ourselves and the world around us is a huge step forward in humanity’s evolution. Photography is a means of expanding our perception of reality and we’re always growing as photographers.
Photography is also a tool that has been used to kill thousands of people all over the world. I mean, who would have thought that a camera that shoots pictures of corpses would be used to kill them? I feel a little weird saying this, but I think that photography is a good thing, in that it helps make sense of the world.
The use of photography as a tool of mass murder was brought to light by the photographer David Hockney. He found a dead body, shot into the heart, and then set it on fire after he had taken pictures of it. Hockney went on to say that he did this not because he wanted to bring attention to himself, but because he felt the images he took would change how people responded to death and the violence of the world around us.
That statement, that there’s a use for photography as a tool of mass murder, is a common one throughout history, including during the Nazis in Germany, the Nazi camps in the US, and even during the Armenian Genocide. The point is that photography itself doesn’t bring death to any one person, it only creates more death, but the act of using the camera to give some sort of “point of view” and get the most visceral picture is the same.
Photography isnt about death. It’s about capturing something in its most visceral form. A photograph is a way of capturing a moment of life, an event, or an emotion so you can look at it later when you’re alone. The emotion captured is the same as the thing that causes the emotion in the first place.
Photography is a form of expression. You are not attempting to scare us or trick us into looking at the same thing again. You are expressing a pure emotional response. It is not about death, it is not about dying, it is only about the very essence of life. That’s why death is not the only thing photography has to fear; there is something far more threatening in photography than death.
Photography is a form of expression, not the expression of death. All of the things that happen to us, that our friends, our families, all of the things that we do with our bodies are expressions of life. We are not trying to scare ourselves, we are not trying to trick ourselves. We are simply attempting to express what is in our hearts. There is no reason to be afraid of photography. No reason to be afraid of art, no reason to be afraid of anything.
When we look at something we have to look at it from the perspective of another individual, not our own. When you look at a painting, you are not looking at yourself. You are looking at someone else’s perspective. You are looking at their point of view. It’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s not completely wrong either.
Photography is an art form and an expression of an individual’s point of view, and that point of view is not the same thing as your own. I have made it a point in the past to try to walk with everyone else rather than try to impose my point of view.
This comes up in everything from the way I view the world to how I can relate to others to how I view myself. I think its important to try to see the world through others eyes, rather than your own. If your own point of view is wrong, its wrong for everyone.