WHY

Following me sending my profile to my tutor he emailed me a response in which he made a pretty important statement - "I think the most important thing to come to terms with first of all is WHY you want to make certain pictures."

Unfortunately I've not yet managed to come up with a decent, concise answer to the question of WHY? But I do recognise the need to try. So here are a few partial answers - hopefully in time I'll develop an answer which is a bit more complete:

• To be part of something with meaning
• To demonstrate an ability to seeing things in a different way
• To make sense of a feeling of being on the outside looking in
• To try and box off a certain chunk of reality and turn it into something simple
• Because I want to know WHY.....

Further reflection (30th Jun 12)

I'm aware that the above reasons are all very self centred. i.e. they're reasons why my photography and photographs would be important to me. However, those reasons are probably unlikely to result in photographs which are important to other people.

Further reflection 2 (30th Jun 12)

For some time I've wondered why the photographs I've produced in the past so often don't feel important or "good" to me. I can certainly say that none of them have really tackled all of the above WHYs. Maybe that's what they're lacking.

I think in addition it's because so many of them are fake (I've realised this as I've started to look more closely at the work of professional photographers). Over saturated. Over sharpened.