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Originally Posted by Maris  If you really want to make photographs that bend viewers minds then you need visual propaganda techniques. |
I don't see what this has to do with propaganda; I am not selling or pushing or convincing anything through my photography. I am merely interested in hearing others' viewpoints about how their work is seen and how that affects their thought process.
As for me, I take photographs primarily for myself, so that I can re-explore the scene and take myself back to it again and again... and perhaps even find more in it than I found when I initially framed the photograph. So I think a photograph as substantially more than a record of a person or place or thing at a particular time: it is more of a portal through which I can continue to explore. For me, one of the most satisfying aspects of photography is the ability to re-explore a scene through different prints and so forth, long after the photograph was taken. Frankly, I am frequently surprised by how little I actually saw/appreciated at "capture" time.
So, while I do occasionally like to show people what sort of things I'm working on or thinking about, but I don't think I have any particular axe to grind, I simply enjoy communicating with people about ideas and progress in thought.