On your phone, on your tablet, on your computer, you will find them everywhere. New ways of manufacturing and research and development have flourished the production and lowered the cost to access this particular device. I’m referring to a time stopping device, one that gives the bearer the ability to show others how he sees the world around him, a device that has caused deep emotions to the audience that have witnessed the final results of this device. These emotions range from sadness to great appraisal and awe, to understanding and sympathy, among many others. And it seems to me that nowadays we take this device and it’s capacity for granted.
It’s been almost two hundred years since this device was introduced. And although technology changes, and devices come and go, this device lives on, and shows no sign of dying any time soon. The way it looks might have changed and the time it takes to get your result has drastically been reduced, but there is one element that will always stay true. The device can only work to it’s full potential when in the hands of a person who truly understands it and knows that the only limitation to the device is the bearer itself. Like the surgeon with his scalpel, like a painter with his brush, the camera is nothing without the photographer’s eye and dexterity behind the lens. And it’s with this work that I aim to give an insiders view into the world of photography and it’s importance to me: socially, historically, commercially, and as a way of life.
It’s been almost two hundred years since this device was introduced. And although technology changes, and devices come and go, this device lives on, and shows no sign of dying any time soon. The way it looks might have changed and the time it takes to get your result has drastically been reduced, but there is one element that will always stay true. The device can only work to it’s full potential when in the hands of a person who truly understands it and knows that the only limitation to the device is the bearer itself. Like the surgeon with his scalpel, like a painter with his brush, the camera is nothing without the photographer’s eye and dexterity behind the lens. And it’s with this work that I aim to give an insiders view into the world of photography and it’s importance to me: socially, historically, commercially, and as a way of life.
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