Photography and Fine Art..

me ayu amin ira - mr.fairuz ;)

" Photography is not a goal but a means to imply me in the harmony of

the world "

Hey! i was going through images by Olliver Follmi and Marc Schultz. I learned alot from their experiences and their advice. Their ideas. Concepts. Not about their photos, but of their photography. Their intention. Their purpose. :)

The quotation above is by Oliver Follmi. I believe so too. Photography is mostly like a form of capturing the beauty of God's amazing creations. 

The above photographers i mentioned are travel photographers. Despite the fact that they travel alot, they have a deep consent of the culture. :)

today i had my second class in photography. Was with robb gibbs and Paul Lander. We had lots of debates. Mini debates over controversial images in our Ethics in Photography Subject. 

Honestly, there are just some artworks out there, meant to just make the hell out of other people. Problems. Plain inferiority. When we were taught that, NEVER go near a public swimming bath with a camera, i was shocked. Why would't they allow that? What can we do with a camera?

Being the devils advocate, paul started explaining that, there are LAWs, legal inductions which apply to photographers in certain areas. Mostly happening in the Europe and Americas. Havent heard of these such things in Malaysia before. Because you see, im not even allowed to take photographs of my own children(one day) having fun in the swimming pool? How absurd is that?

People now tend to think more of "What would he do with those images?" rather than " a great way to cherish a moment with the family".

ever since the age of pedophiles and other 'disgusto' terms of people who came up around the 1980's, photographers have been having a hard time. Even sexual abuse has been a trouble for them. 

Me being a photographer too. Not a commercial one, nor am i a professional, i tend to think that, where's the freedom in photography?! What happened..?

I have the questions posted in my head. But i also have acquired answers from the world wide web and books all around. The tendency of imaging cognoscenti's to think of freedom in the world of fine art has been demolished. 

Honestly, i believe, some of us "artists" have done things which demolished our own dimension. We were looking at images from Joel Peter Witkin and many more. Controversial. Purpose? I do not know. i suggest precautions when looking at these photographs. 

What has the world come to. What is happening? Shouldnt art be of beauty ? or should it.

Yam, a friend of mine posted this question and raised the issue in one of her written assignments. It does not have to be about something beautiful, i believe, BUT having photographs which will deteriorate and literally cause harm to the world of artsy fartsy is not what im looking for. 

So please, fine artists, fine tune your conceptual thinking and methodology of work. This post wont mean much to the fine artists up there in stardom anyway. hehe

any suggestive comments? :)