What do the photos you take tell about yourself?

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This is a question that arises in my mind what I contemplate the gallery or the work of other photographers and I am curious what others think about this topic.

Some thoughts I have regarding the topic is, that photography can give you the illusion that you are depicting something 'objectively', but it is alway you who were there and pressed the button, for what reason however. So the work of a photographer is mingled with subjective and objective components. So looking at the work of a photographer tells a story of what happened in that particular space and time, but the perspective also may tell you something about the subject who took the photograph, especially if you get to see the work over a long period of time.

One of the reasons I took up photography was that I wanted to know what it could tell me about myself.

What do you think?
 
What does it tell others?

Whatever they are determined to read into it...

(Probably the same as what it tells you about yourself).

Cheers,

R.
 
My photos (personal work) 'kinda reflect my mind at any moment.
Right now I'm in a Raw/non-produced mode. Real in a way. 8x10, B&W, natural light, non models, I don't say anything to them .... I just look at them & wait. click.

My ad work is what ever the client wants... Cha Ching!
 
Well, Roger beat me to it. I, too, think the photographs tell people what they want to find in them. As for what your photos tell you about yourself, it can't be more than you already know, I guess.
 
My photos tell me I like to shoot on purpose, rather than randomly. And that I prefer to point my camera at people more than places or things. Which is consistent with the way I actually pursue photography. And my priorities in life.
 
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I just thought that the way how I percieve a photograph may also be telling more about myself than about the photographer.
 
Well, apart from the fact that, like others above, I need to keep working at it, I don't think that self analysis can ever be objective so I think I will not bother.

I keep taking photos because I enjoy it, even the disappointments in a perverse sort of way - there what does that say about me?
 
I don't know. People often ask me why I took a certain picture or I work on the projects I do (e.g. my current Milton Keynes project) and I don't really have a reason in my mind. I just take pictures of things I like -- and it can be things that unsettle me or things that I find repugnant to the senses. But I like to be challenged.

If anything my built environment photos perhaps say a lot about what I think about urbanity. I find it very hard to describe, but it's like a feel a mysterious yawning chasm in humanity sometimes through the buildings, a deeply unsettling somber swan-song. Maybe it's also the juxtaposition of the natural against the constructed unnatural, feeling like something is out of place, maybe I sometimes feel like that. I'm my own person and sometimes that makes me out of place in this world wandering from street to street, back alley to back alley, and maybe the half empty side of me sees futility and the half full side admiration.

I sometimes think that the things I photograph connect me to an emotion or feeling at that time, like a visual representation of my mindscape, that when put together describes an entire passage of thought processes and reactions. I take pictures of decay and deprivation to connect with the feeling of emptiness and malaise, and pictures of things on the move and buildings of stature with the feeling of excitement, being energised and intrigue.

But I will always return to the feeling that I take pictures because I liked what I saw. The nub is that 'like' aspect.

Vicky
 
gho said:
One of the reasons I took up photography was that I wanted to know what it could tell me about myself.

What do you think?
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I think the wife tells me enough - about myself!...I just take pictures to record people and places, while out having fun - or sometimes making a little cash! - sorry :)
Dave.
 
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