Surfing on the photographic enthusiasm web planet, you may encounter what it seems a growing trend of people for whom photography is facing a dead lock. For them photography as a documentary purpose or an educative or entertaining art expression doesn't interest us anymore. We have trans-passed the "Rubicon" where pictures are simply became an almost unnoticeable decorative tapestry with no real impact in our selfish life. We are facing a sentiment of vast useless identity. WHY DOING PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY? To whom it can still be addressed or who can be still interested to look at?
In becoming an hardware society in terms of technology applications (softwares are part of it), we gradually have evacuated the basic motivation of doing photography which is not only a communication channel but also the expression of our deep perception of the world. In one word the messenger has surpassed the message. The technique has completely overwhelmed the subject. And now after all those years and decades of stacking technical developments and configuring algorithms based on past doing, we are trialling about what can be done more to get original and provoking content.
Part of this no or less "interest" problem is us. Are we really interest about our surrounding universe or have we "retro-evolute" to our original foetal matrices? We know that the future will be challenging individually, socially and collectively but we simply refuse to face it. In place we try to delegate our duty to some others that are controlling more and more our society. And photography should testify of those changes but are we still opened to look at it? In fact reacting is not so easy to perform for anybody except may be for special extroverted persons but in face of these alarming people, we are highly suspicious or, worse, totally blind or indifferent.
The question may be to ask ourselves if photography as a visual expression is still as significant as it uses to be in the past? The answer might be found first in ourselves attitude toward our planet and people.
In becoming an hardware society in terms of technology applications (softwares are part of it), we gradually have evacuated the basic motivation of doing photography which is not only a communication channel but also the expression of our deep perception of the world. In one word the messenger has surpassed the message. The technique has completely overwhelmed the subject. And now after all those years and decades of stacking technical developments and configuring algorithms based on past doing, we are trialling about what can be done more to get original and provoking content.
Part of this no or less "interest" problem is us. Are we really interest about our surrounding universe or have we "retro-evolute" to our original foetal matrices? We know that the future will be challenging individually, socially and collectively but we simply refuse to face it. In place we try to delegate our duty to some others that are controlling more and more our society. And photography should testify of those changes but are we still opened to look at it? In fact reacting is not so easy to perform for anybody except may be for special extroverted persons but in face of these alarming people, we are highly suspicious or, worse, totally blind or indifferent.
The question may be to ask ourselves if photography as a visual expression is still as significant as it uses to be in the past? The answer might be found first in ourselves attitude toward our planet and people.
Photo Daniel M: Fujifilm X-E3 / Fujinon XF27mm F2.8
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