On Writing on Top of Photography

A photographer should be scared of talking too much about his work.

  1. Talking usually means not taking photographs.
  2. Saying anything means you’re not saying something else, and so limits what you can say through your pictures (see Open Pictures).
  3. Photography may only have a tenous link to thinking as we understand that process.

But there is suspicion that talking and thinking about it may help. And so I do, very reluctantly.

A new test for all writing: how does this help you take better photographs?


Posted 3 years ago

© Adnan Chowdhury 2011