Steal Your Soul

Bruno — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:00:23 +0000

Duesseldorf, Germany, 2012

Bruno — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:00:15 +0000

Duesseldorf, Germany, 2012

Bruno — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:00:19 +0000

Duesseldorf, Germany, 2012

Seoul – 3

Bruno — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:00:41 +0000

Seoul, South Korea, 2012

Seoul – 2

Bruno — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:00:17 +0000

Seoul. South Korea, 2012

Seoul

Bruno — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:00:02 +0000

Seoul, South Korea, 2012

Cranganore, 16.01.2009

Bruno — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:00:07 +0000

After doing a small search on the internet while in Kochi, I discovered that there was a festival in a nearby town. Along with elephants and the standard stuff, I found a small fun fair. The lady in the first photo is “Naga Rani”, the “Snake Queen”. Trivially, a woman is sitting under a table and her head is popping up. A fake snake is attached to her head. Under the table there is a mirror, so you have the impression to see through it. The trick is so easy that I was amazed how no one would see it. It’s how I discovered that faith and will are intertwined, if you want to believe you will.

An alternative to western rational thinking. I’m not sure I could live with it, but it makes people happy.

Cranganore, India, 2009

The Kids are Alright

Bruno — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:00:44 +0000

An interview with Paul Trevor, who found some contact sheets “buried” for 35 years in his drawer.

Cherai Beach, 18.01.2009

Bruno — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:00:37 +0000

Cherai Beach, India, 2009

Everybody can be a photographer!

Bruno — Fri, 27 May 2011 06:00:01 +0000

There are two interesting posts on Conscentious, titled “if everybody can be a photographer”, part 1 and part 2. Although, Joerg Colberg, the author, has a good start, I think that he slips quite a few times.

Writers share exactly the same experience. If lots of people want to be photographers, even more would like to be writers or journalists. The school system puts much more emphasis on writing skills than visual arts, this means that there are a much more people who are proficient in literature than people who are proficient with photography. How many people know who was Shakespeare? How many people know who was Henri Cartier-Bresson? You get my point.
Knowing how to take a good photograph, doesn’t make anyone a pro. What makes people “pros” is waking up, doing the job and doing it right even if they don’t like that particular assignment. Basic technical skills are just the base that’s needed to build a profession.
Prices of photography are going down, but I wouldn’t say that there is someone guilty of it. At a certain point it could be wise to accept that the figure of the photographer might become as obsolete as a the people charging money to write letters for people who are illiterate: when everyone can read, write and owns a pen, they just disappear. Doesn’t matter that their letters were “better”.
Established photographers who are undercut from young guys offering a similar job for less money. The problem afflicts everyone who has a job subject to the “market economy”: engineers, web designers, programmers, cooks, travel guide authors, plumbers, musicians…

Go out, take your photos and don’t feel guilty of doing so. If “pros” can’t establish and keep their own market it’s their problem.