Hi!
I’m curious about how many of you photographers write about your photos. I’ve got a specific reason for asking this.
Over the last few years my taste in what I photograph has changed quite a bit. I couldn’t find a thread through the images for quite a while, until I pulled a few out from a couple-month span and wrote about them. It was super useful for me, helping me realize what I was getting drawn to, and that in turn helped me focus my work going forward.
I’m curious if any of you write about your work too. Please tell me about it!
And please drop a link to the writing below if it’s public. I’d be down to give it a look.
Cheers!
I totally understand what you are saying. When I photograph, I do it very intuitively. It’s often, not always, only after looking at the images at home, that I can explain what drew me in.
When posting on Instagram, I mostly just write the year and place, but sometimes a caption just springs to mind when I’m looking at the photo. A little story of how I took the picture, why, or what I like so much about it. Sometimes just a general thought about photography itself.
I enjoy reading this from other photographers as well. It provides a little bit of context for the work, which is not always necessary, but sometimes does make you look twice at a photo and puts it in perspective.
In general, putting emotions, feelings into words, in writing, helps me understand and deal with them.
I once took one of those elaborate personality tests at a job center and my profile was “artistic-intellectual”. I also studied languages. This might explain my inclinations…