The ART of Photography

Photography for me is a perfect, flexible blend of, on one side, details, tech, geekness, and on the other side, creativity and artistry. Mix and match your own recipe. There’s space for everyone. The pictures tell the slices of what we see, and the way you slice them tells the viewer about you. That’s why I love it.

What inspires me? (in my photography, every day, in life)
In photography? The need/want to show what I see. It’s like pointing things out which people sometimes overlook, get bored with, etc. Walking past the roses.
Everyday? The daily sunrise/sunset show. The pre-dawn colours in the sky that I can see across the bay, before I even lift my head from my pillow.
In life? Creativity, in all it’s shapes and sizes, un-disciplines ‘n all.

I thought about other places that I’d like to put in front of my lens, and the answer keeps coming back that there are people and places aplenty in South Africa, that I’d love to make photo’s of.

There are people, many, many people, who have no voice. Who are, largely, unseen. Every 4 years or so, they come out in long lines to choose their leaders. And then they go back to their  homes, and get on with their lives.  TV cameras don’t show them getting on with it.  Paparazzi don’t dog their every move, in the hope of snapping a grainy, super-tele pic, to feed the media machine. But they’re there. Their seconds and minutes and days, the same length as all of ours.

The ART project, for me, is an opportunity to ‘see’  those folk, through my lens,  and hopefully show them to people who might never see them otherwise. It’s a grandiose-sounding project, I know, but one that captures my imagination, and fills me with anticipation.

Watch this space. Watch the pictures.