'content'...to be or not to be, an ongoing thread.

[RichC]

My thoughts of "concept" have been very much influenced by a photo instructor who when reviewing assignments would ask me questions like:

Why does this photo exist?

What were you trying to accomplish with this photo? How well do you think you did that?

I still try to ask myself these questions when editing my work.

Interestingly she was not a great photographer but had been an excellent newspaper reporter. I came to realize how close the two disciplines were.

Similar story. The person who had the most influence on my photography was the head of my Photography MA degree course - but she doesn't take photographs or own a camera!

She wasn't an artist, nor a reporter, but an art historian. But she truly understands how pictures work and communicate.

From my series Tempus Fugit No. 1:

 

[back alley]

My thoughts of "concept" have been very much influenced by a photo instructor who when reviewing assignments would ask me questions like:

Why does this photo exist?

What were you trying to accomplish with this photo? How well do you think you did that?

I still try to ask myself these questions when editing my work.

Interestingly she was not a great photographer but had been an excellent newspaper reporter. I came to realize how close the two disciplines were.

this is written so much more clearly than my own post...and it says exactly what i was trying to get at.