Photography Is Something Like Wrapping A Gift

Article By: Prashanth Swaminathan

Filmmaking is presenting truth with the filmmaker’s view about the truth. Photography laid the foundation for this basic structure of filmmaking. Photos are plain truth that are even more real than reality.

Life on earth has remained the same for a long time. Change never ceases to change. Time is cyclic and things repeat. If you observe fashion industry closely, you’ll find that we are living a cyclic life. So, there’s nothing new as such. Same truth or element of earth is presented in different wrappers over time.

There are a lot of masters in photography who’d shot and are shooting almost everything we think about and that we shoot. All of the photographs is a copy of many other photographs. This is applicable for any art form. You can’t really create something new and organic. But, you can wrap things with your own wrapper. This art form is sure to survive for a lot of time. The cyclic structure is never bound to stop. Try coming up with new wrappers and not to forget, keep visiting the works of the masters whenever you’re bored of your wrapper. Happy wrapping!