{"id":115,"date":"2023-02-27T23:09:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T22:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/?p=115"},"modified":"2023-12-08T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:10:16","slug":"visual-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/visual-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"the performative aspect of photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/artist-statement\/\">Photography<\/a> is more than a photo. When we look at a picture we don&#8217;t see how it is done. Often we have to guess what the creative process was that led to the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Some may call this a performance. For me it is more a dialog, a conversation. What I aspire with my pictures is to keep the dialog going in the mind of the viewer. That my pictures raises these questions: Where does it come from? Where is it going? And what is happening right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/639c3dc4b5e0b10010db570c\/6400d1ca2019d400117666a2\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"110px\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You can view the process as an performance &#8211; how the photographer interacts with the subject:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The landscape photographer puts up the tripod and waits for the right moment when the sun <a href=\"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/mastercalss-lightshaping\/\">light<\/a> is perfect<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the street photographer dances around to find the right angle and composition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/cinematic-portraits\/\">portrait<\/a> photographer sets up the light and directs the subject how to pose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I find this interpretation of the photographic process irritating &#8211; a performance means that there is someone who is watching the process. Sure, I love to watch other photographers doing their work, but more often nobody notices when somebody takes a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For me taking pictures is more like a dialog. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A scene speaks to me and I answer to it by pressing the shutter and take a picture. I love it when the dialog continues in the mind of the viewer. When the captured scene rises questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Where does it come from?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where is it going?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is happening right now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">That\u2019s what I aim for &#8211; visual story telling.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I can do that I need to prepare myself and do the inner work &#8211; I make myself ready to take pictures today. I get into a state of calm and open awareness so that I can notice the fine signals and vibes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my creative process I like surprises: Even if I work with models or actors &#8211; I have created a mood-board and set up a theme and a story to communicate my ideas &#8211; when it comes to the shooting itself, I don\u2019t have an image in mind that I want to create. I am more like a blank canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this needs practice: Practice to understand the effect of lighting, colour and composition &#8211; to see the world through the lens of a camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me taking pictures is like a dialog &#8211; What I aspire with my pictures is that the dialog continues in the mind of the viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conscious-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}