Rant about prosaic photography
pro⋅sa⋅ic
–adjective
1. commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative

In many ways, photography is like writing - you can write about anything, you can do it to inform, amuse, scare, trigger emotions - and you can do it with varying degrees of skill. Anyone can write.

There is a lot of bad writing out there - unskilled, that is. Even Dan Brown has skill. However, people can say when writing is shit. Or just mediocre. They can say it a lot easier than the same can be said about photography.

There's photographers who don't think of themselves as such - your average Joe and Jane that take a quick snap of a friend doing something silly, or a kid's birthday party.

Then there's everyone else with a camera. People who have a purpose in mind for photographs, something more than as a solution to a problem.


God damn, a lot of them suck.