verathos-deactivated20110816 asked: “This may seem like an odd question, but what is it about photography that attracts you the most?”
When I was a kid I used to play the guitar, the piano and later the electric bass. I used to daydream about playing in front of people and convey my own emotions to the audience, show them what was going on deep into my soul through my music. I’m a shy kind of person so I don’t talk much to people around me, but I really felt that I could reach them by means of music.
Then I had to stop studying and playing music because I had to move to another country and work there.
It was more or less during that time that I became interested in creative writing. I started writing short stories and share them on the internet. I was so happy when I would received positive comments. Again, I started to daydream about writing a novel, put every bit of myself into it, and finally be able to tell people my own vision of the world. This delusion of mine was completely annihilated after I read some of the works by David Forster Wallace. ‘How crazy of me to think that I could be able to write a novel,’ I whispered, Infinite Jest still in my hand after I had just read the last page.
Then came photography. It all started as a way to show people at home the places I was visiting. But gradually it started to grow inside me as a way to capture memories and emotions: joy, pride, happiness, desire, despair, recklessness, anger, sadness, remorse, melancholy, and show them on a image. ‘This is magic,’ I would say to myself. And that feeling never abandoned me! I’m always amazed at how much powerful a photograph can be when it comes to emotions it conveys. This is what attracts me the most about photography. I’m not really interested in technical aspects, though I really try hard to improve my own skills. It is the message what I’m really interested in.
I consider myself a beginner, and this blog is just a scrapbook documenting my awkward efforts in trying to achieve what I just described: transfer my subject’s and my own emotions on a photograph, so to create a sort of emotional bridge between me, the subject and people looking at that photograph.
I wouldn’t go into details about how much time I spend daydreaming about the mighty results I could achieve rather then taking my camera, go out and take photos, this is another story :)
