Young photographers are often pressured into an emphasis on individual style, a search for distinction, a quest for newness and differentness. Yet the truth of the matter is that a unique style is a by-product of visual exploration, not its goal. Personal vision only comes from not aiming for it. In dim light, objects emerge from the gloom when not looking at them. It is the same with style; paradoxically, it is a natural, inevitable result of emphasizing subject, not self.
Bill Jay, Occam’s Razor
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Oh, I really like this. It’s the same with life it seems. (Your best self comes of being honest with your soul, then living in that honesty- not in trying to define your unique self.)
Great observation, Kelli.
So very true.
“It is the same with style; paradoxically, it is a natural, inevitable result of emphasizing subject, not self.”
Great line.
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