Why Am I Doing This?

What is my Photography about?

I have enough gear to open a museum now, so what?

My technique has improved.

I have no style I can articulate.

All I know is I see, I feel and in this moment, my desire to create an image has taken me over.

What does this mean?

To be taken by a moment?

What is at the source of this?

It’s not the Camera.

I am searching.

Searching for my natural authentic expression.

In writing this stream of thought, I do so in the hope to unlock the big why for myself.

Why am I even doing this?
Spending money on gear just to go click……another image, so what?

I don’t Travel regularly to call myself a Travel Photographer, I see faces everyday so talking to people, random strangers is my normal mode of activity.

Relationships, connection, bonding and then, may I create and image of you?

This is how I roll.

I am a Travel Photographer in my neighbourhood.

This is where I practice.

My career as a professional magician and speaker inspired me to buy a Camera because I was being hired in Europe, the Far East to share my work. I knew having a camera in my bag was a MUST.

And yet, what was it all about?

I sat quietly while documenting my thoughts and I realised creating images was exactly that, exercising my creativity. Creating a photograph is no different to me than creating a card trick or Michelangelo chipping away at a Block of Marble.

Something from nothing….this is magic.

The act of creation is my expression of life.

Creating images about the expression of life is where I live.

It all makes perfect sense.

Observing life in its Candid Expression.

Appreciating Animals and their authentic being.

Celebrating Mother Nature and her full blown self expression.

Faces,

Portraits,

Women….

I am in heaven.

Revealing the truth to my subjects and how I experience them in 35mm is a gift because we all want to be known, seen and appreciated for who we are.

So this stream of consciousness has been useful because as I typed and evaluated my own reasons, the questions forced me to answer the truth of who am I.

My Photography is about me, it’s about you, it’s about life, love, stories and that magic moment where life and it’s expression makes sense in 35mm.

Everything else is an inauthentic lie……even these moments are worthy of preserving because it’s part of the game.

The contrast between truth, the lie, the juxtaposition, the comedy, the tragedy, the genius and madness of the human condition all adds up to this extraordinary banquet of human expression.

To document it is who I am.

Why?

Because my life is about documenting my time while I am alive.

Who cares?

I don’t know and I don’t care.

I care.

That’s all that matters.

Thanks for reading