Category: Art
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Why I Gave Up Photography to Be an Artist
Early into my photographic education I was confronted by two main ideas: 1. That photography is a language capable of expressing complex ideas through images alone, and 2. That photography could be used for good, by exposing more people to more “truth”. Being a practising rationalist (or at least an aspiring one) I was always…
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Why I Gave Up Art To Be A Photographer
From a young age I dedicated a significant amount of my time to drawing. I couldn’t tell you how I started, or why I enjoyed it so much, but I guess it just felt natural. My art education consists of being told to copy an object that lay on the table, and at a later…
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Experiential Art
“ A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience. ” –Mark Rothko My initial ideas about experiential art arose out of one of the problems that is particularly troubling for the conscientious photographer, which is the fact that the photograph more often than not, hides the process and effort that went into…