Breaking my own label
So I have been posting more industrial photos lately. Not that I switched to this theme for ever. The reason is that I have a one real opportunity to exhibit my photos in UK (Sheffield). Thank you, Terry! And those photos should be about old industry in Ostrava. And I very much want to do that. So I looked in my photo archives and found out that I don't really have much pure industrial photos. Coal mines, factories, etc. My photos are mostly showing the "post-industrial" fate of this region. It was always about abandonment and decay on the background of industry.
So, I was first afraid, but when browsing my photo archives, I found photos that would be worth showing in this context.
So, that's for the industry theme. I will post some more as I have been shooting lately with having this exhibition on my mind.
Also. I have been shooting in the nature this autumn. Mountains. Trees. Beautiful colors. Waterfalls. It doesn't mean that I have become a landscape photographer. I always did. It means that I didn't self - curate myself so much lately. Sometimes, I would say to myself, you shouldn't photograph that beautiful yellow tree, it is too obvious. It is beauty as it is. Nothing to discover. But. I thought, I should not avoid photographing something only because it doesn't fit to a general "picture of me as a photographer". I know. I know. People who looks at my photos for a longer period of time must me perplexed a bit. One day I post a gloomy BW photo from the underpass, another day a beautiful autumnal landscape. And that's ok for me. I am not building a label, a product. Viewer might be confused. Maybe disappointed. Because they expected something else and got something different. I know. I have all this in my mind. Breaking my own label consciously.
There are people, on social media, and I hear all these gentle hints, whispers, unspoken or spoken. Telling this is the direction. This is not the direction. And I successfully ignore them. Mostly. In a good way.
I am not walking on a paved road. It would be boring. End of creativity. End of fun.
© Pavel P.
So, I was first afraid, but when browsing my photo archives, I found photos that would be worth showing in this context.
So, that's for the industry theme. I will post some more as I have been shooting lately with having this exhibition on my mind.
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| Michálkovice, 2017 |
Also. I have been shooting in the nature this autumn. Mountains. Trees. Beautiful colors. Waterfalls. It doesn't mean that I have become a landscape photographer. I always did. It means that I didn't self - curate myself so much lately. Sometimes, I would say to myself, you shouldn't photograph that beautiful yellow tree, it is too obvious. It is beauty as it is. Nothing to discover. But. I thought, I should not avoid photographing something only because it doesn't fit to a general "picture of me as a photographer". I know. I know. People who looks at my photos for a longer period of time must me perplexed a bit. One day I post a gloomy BW photo from the underpass, another day a beautiful autumnal landscape. And that's ok for me. I am not building a label, a product. Viewer might be confused. Maybe disappointed. Because they expected something else and got something different. I know. I have all this in my mind. Breaking my own label consciously.
There are people, on social media, and I hear all these gentle hints, whispers, unspoken or spoken. Telling this is the direction. This is not the direction. And I successfully ignore them. Mostly. In a good way.
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| Michálkovice, 2017 |
© Pavel P.
