Beautiful
Beautiful
These images are essentially the practice of extending ones photographic skills, beyond the basic level, through self-expression and experimentation. Most people just want to take a balanced, colourful and sharp picture. They are happy to use their camera's to make records of their family milestones, holidays and personal achievements. These images strive to develop a deeper, more intense relationship with the media of photography. Very much as a painter strives for better understanding of their paint, canvas, brushes and subject, the experimental photographer desires an almost marital companionship of their camera's, lenses, films and images.
To create something as beautiful, such as poetry, as personal as sculpture and moving and confrontational as dramatic dance or comedy. The photographer will dismiss all of their previous tuition and mentally ignore any external influences in order to produce a body of work that is truly reflective of the photographer's inner artist.
