Annika Bansal
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Annika Bansal
I heard of an exercise used in a writing workshop that involved imagining a photograph so personal that we couldn’t show it to anyone. What would it be? That’s the level of exposure we’re aiming for.
from Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It by DBC Pierre
You don’t want to make your photos too obvious. You want the viewer to work hard to come up with his or her own interpretation of reality. You do this by adding mystery and removing context from your images:
from 82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography by Eric Kim
- What we call happiness or ecstasy is, to me, creative thinking. And creative thinking is the infinite movement of thought, emotion, and action. That is, when thought, which is emotion, which is action itself, is unimpeded in its movement, is not compelled or influenced or bound by an idea, and does not proceed from the background of tradition or ha... See more
from Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti
journalism becomes most effective when it prompts public awareness, inspires reflection and spurs dialogue.
from Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse by Marie K. Shanahan
- Real beauty has all kinds of deep shadows, it is not just bright flickers of color. Go and look at a Rodin sculpture and you will feel the gravity of beauty.
from Beauty by Andrew Sweeny
“As for me, seeker after truth and student of life as I am… I take from life the movements I observe, but it is not I who impose them. Even when a subject which I’m working on compels me to ask a model for a certain fixed pose, I indicate it to him, but I carefully avoid touching him to place him in the position, for I will reproduce only what reality spontaneously offers me. I obey Nature in everything, and I never pretend to command her. My only ambition is to be servilely faithful to her.” (Gsell, p. 11).
- In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more
from All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge by Sam Kriss
- How to Be Lucky¶
You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short ... See morefrom Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself by Jason Liu
You can't expect your subjects to open up to you if you don't open up to them.
from 82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography by Eric Kim
- Beware of these two fallacies of photographic appreciation: 1) You like a photograph because you think/have been told that it is good. 2) You think a photograph is good because you like it.
from LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue) by Bill Jay