What is a Good Photograph? (2)
My previous post asked what is a good photograph from an artistic point of view. Here, I ask a different question: Must a good photograph be an artistic one?. Can’t a good photo simply be a photo in which I, or any other photographed object, look good in it? In other words, what if it is not the artistic value that counts, but the way in which the subject of the photograph is evaluated?
What is a good photograph?
Sometimes you know what a good photograph is just by looking at it. But how do you know what you know is right? We may expand this question even further, and ask: How do we know what good art is?
This question leads us into a deep philosophical-social-economic trap, related to the definition of Art. Can photography contests help us know?
The Cassowary
Taking photographs at a zoo is a technical and artistic challenge. While instructing a workshop at the zoo, I took two minutes for myself and photographed what I saw and felt about this cassowary at that moment – the great contradiction between what I saw, and whatever a cassowary is to me – a potent, powerful, aggressive, even dangerous animal.
Photographing Covid-19 lockdown at home
The year 2020 imprisoned us at home for hours, days and months. It was a period of longing for outdoors, but also of opportunities for a different photography.
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