About Me
I was born in January 1963 in Belgium. My first photography experience happened during a 1972 trip in Hungary with a Kodak Brownie Holiday! I still remember the first feeling of framing and clicking the button. Since then I've had sevral periods with and without photography. I last went back to it around 1998, apparently for good this time. After a brief time devoted mainly to street photography, I evolved towards landscape. My landscape photography is akin to tourism snapshots. I see things I find interesting and try to show them to people. If someone finds one of those things interesting too, I am delighted. As Colin justly remarked, landscape photography is not exactly an unexplored field. Conveying an intention is hard. Writing a caption could help, if writing the caption was not so hard to begin with. Most of the times, the caption for my pictures could be summarized by: “I saw this and I’d like to show it to you.”
Being mostly a (hobbyist) landscapist, I feel sometimes at loss to find something interesting. The self-repetition is hard to avoid, let alone the repetition of what others have done. So the two top challenges for the landscapist are, firstly, to find something new for him and, secondly, to find something new and interesting for an audience. The latter is most probably a presumptuous goal.
I have read that landscape artists have a very narrow view of the world. To which I answered:
For some it takes a lifetime to explore what others see as a narrow view. The path is beaten to death, we know. What we don’t know is what the others found following it.
Stephane :: Sep.20.2007 :: :: Comments Off
