I try to find beauty all the time. I admit that I love beautiful things and I like to photograph beautiful images. I even try to find beauty in things and matters that aren't beautiful at all like trash, broken things, ugly font, run-down houses - what ever my object is I try to make it beautiful. But why?
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| food waste |
I like also surreal. I guess I try to make things to look like they were straight from a fairy tale or from imagination. I love fairy tales or tales in general. It might be that tradition of photography honors ducumentary approach more than play with imagination. But they both - document and fiction - can be art. Why I don't make document photography? I have made some and going to make more but you know also in that I try to make reality to look surreal - unreal and beautiful. Why?
The question is why? I've been thinking this matter lately quite a lot. I feel I don't want to do empty photography without content. The answer is I see my photography as a way to give a birth to emotion and experience. Emotions and feelings are the best what we humans have. Can you think a life without feelings and emotions? What kind of life it would be?
Some of us - photographers - run to the fields of war or place where have happened something unnatural or extreamly awful. We show to people the horrors, weird things, real things, ordinary, our own visions, so many important issues and things. I believe we are also working for ourselves by choosing our objects that will be in our focus. We tell our own story every time when we push the button. Objective truth doesn't exist.
I admire people who wants to risk their own lives to show the hunger, war and all the horrors that exists on our Mother Earth. I have to admit that I've questioned myself why I'm not there - making important reportage in crise areas? The simple answer is I couldn't survive with it. I wouldn't survive and I couldn't face the life as such. I would dive too deep to seas of desperate thoughts and it would paralyze me. Me - who almost cry when I see people running marathon's last meters with very last of their power before they cross the finishing line? Why I still feel that with given talent you have to do something that really matters?
But there are other ways to make a difference. You can choose your way. I want to fight for better life and environment - for everybody. I do it my own way showing things that I respect, talking about things what I feel we should remember and maybe even change our actions. I really hope that with my body of work I also can make a difference. Somewhere deep inside I hope my blog will grow and someday I really can affect to people how they see the world and what kind of consumption they support. Or maybe I make a exhibition about it. Consumption is a big key to everything if you think it more clearly.
But still I think you and I need some relief of reality, of course! We need positive impact to keep us on the right path. It is just how it goes - not everything should be so damn serious! Life is right now and right here so let's use it as good as we can but not forgetting everything else.
What kind of thoughts you have? I like to hear.
Have a beautiful week my reader and thanks for reading my thoughts.
xo
Kreetta
Some of us - photographers - run to the fields of war or place where have happened something unnatural or extreamly awful. We show to people the horrors, weird things, real things, ordinary, our own visions, so many important issues and things. I believe we are also working for ourselves by choosing our objects that will be in our focus. We tell our own story every time when we push the button. Objective truth doesn't exist.
I admire people who wants to risk their own lives to show the hunger, war and all the horrors that exists on our Mother Earth. I have to admit that I've questioned myself why I'm not there - making important reportage in crise areas? The simple answer is I couldn't survive with it. I wouldn't survive and I couldn't face the life as such. I would dive too deep to seas of desperate thoughts and it would paralyze me. Me - who almost cry when I see people running marathon's last meters with very last of their power before they cross the finishing line? Why I still feel that with given talent you have to do something that really matters?
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| next to our bedroom's window |
But there are other ways to make a difference. You can choose your way. I want to fight for better life and environment - for everybody. I do it my own way showing things that I respect, talking about things what I feel we should remember and maybe even change our actions. I really hope that with my body of work I also can make a difference. Somewhere deep inside I hope my blog will grow and someday I really can affect to people how they see the world and what kind of consumption they support. Or maybe I make a exhibition about it. Consumption is a big key to everything if you think it more clearly.
But still I think you and I need some relief of reality, of course! We need positive impact to keep us on the right path. It is just how it goes - not everything should be so damn serious! Life is right now and right here so let's use it as good as we can but not forgetting everything else.
What kind of thoughts you have? I like to hear.
Have a beautiful week my reader and thanks for reading my thoughts.
xo
Kreetta
