

Website: www.sarahsmall.com & www.livingpictureprojects.com
In the past twelve years he has ventured into projects ranging from artistic leadership of a photography festival, curatorial projects for various institutions worldwide, publishing books and a magazine, running a bookstore and gallery to creating the internationally acclaimed 500 Photographers project. He has done countless amounts of portfolio reviews, given masterclasses and judged a large number of competitions.
Due to the variety of endeavors and years of studying and speaking to photographers he quickly recognizes the features he believes to be of the utmost importance to be a successful photographer in this day and age.
2 comments:
"Contrast" in this case is almost synonymous with shock-art--a form of it with a pseudo-intellectual spin. It's a timeless method, really, putting arbitrary subjects together with little-to-no forethought and then challenging the observer to discover some inherent profundity in those subjects' deliberate association. Why's it such a classic? Because it's a win-win. Somebody's bound to declare some obvious symbolism. VoilĂ , insta-art. Everyone who didn't see it before will suddenly find themselves impressed. Why? They don't know. They just know that someone placed value in the stuff, so it must mean something. Sorry Sarah, I hate to be the defiant sheep in the herd, but I believe in the progression of human creativity, but art can't move forward without breaking down this kind of social conditioning. It's not your fault. If it's any consolation, your technical photography skills are superb, you most certainly have the talent to create wonderful images, I'd only suggest rethinking your motivation for making them.
Very well said.
She ends her story with a statement that art should ask questions. My question is what questions is she asking. That kind of art is "catchy" but really so empty. Naked bodies always help a lot.
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