The Future of Photography
I'm a photographer. I walk about capturing everyday life, shows, fashion shoots, concerts etc. I get flown
from city to city drunk off exhaustion with my hands aching from laborious hours of photoshopping and tearing
down studio set-ups. As I gallivant around taking photos, I sometimes think about how I got into this business
and how much its influenced and changed my life.... I think of what Walkers Evans said: “After awhile, a young
man stops, a young women stops looking at art and goes into life”.
Photography has come a long way since the first photograph. The first permanent photo was taken in
1826 by Nicéphore Niépce and entitled: “View from the window at Le Gras”. The black and white photo
required an 8 hour exposure. It would be another 35 years later in 1861 before the first color photograph was
taken. Since that first fuzzy photograph taken almost 186 years ago, more than 3.5 trillion photos have been
taken. Over the last two hundred years, there have been countless advancements in the photographic process,
with countless movements and styles that followed thereafter. Yet, photography has always been considered an
outsider when it comes to modern art. Its falls in this gray area amongst both collectors and admirers of the
medium itself. However, through all its manifestations, photography has remained an important part of our
visual landscape. If anything, the digital age has offered a new way to bring life to images that previously existed
only in their imaginations.
In the age of Instagram, Pheed, Facebook, and smartphones, that number seems to only be multiplying at
an exponential rate. In todays digitalized world, it seems anyone can be an artist or creative genius. Add a filter
to your cluttered concert photo or big night out and the image suddenly transforms into a nostalgic, moody scene
straight out of Rolling Stone. I've been there and have fall victim to it myself on more then one occasion.
from city to city drunk off exhaustion with my hands aching from laborious hours of photoshopping and tearing
down studio set-ups. As I gallivant around taking photos, I sometimes think about how I got into this business
and how much its influenced and changed my life.... I think of what Walkers Evans said: “After awhile, a young
man stops, a young women stops looking at art and goes into life”.
Photography has come a long way since the first photograph. The first permanent photo was taken in
1826 by Nicéphore Niépce and entitled: “View from the window at Le Gras”. The black and white photo
required an 8 hour exposure. It would be another 35 years later in 1861 before the first color photograph was
taken. Since that first fuzzy photograph taken almost 186 years ago, more than 3.5 trillion photos have been
taken. Over the last two hundred years, there have been countless advancements in the photographic process,
with countless movements and styles that followed thereafter. Yet, photography has always been considered an
outsider when it comes to modern art. Its falls in this gray area amongst both collectors and admirers of the
medium itself. However, through all its manifestations, photography has remained an important part of our
visual landscape. If anything, the digital age has offered a new way to bring life to images that previously existed
only in their imaginations.
In the age of Instagram, Pheed, Facebook, and smartphones, that number seems to only be multiplying at
an exponential rate. In todays digitalized world, it seems anyone can be an artist or creative genius. Add a filter
to your cluttered concert photo or big night out and the image suddenly transforms into a nostalgic, moody scene
straight out of Rolling Stone. I've been there and have fall victim to it myself on more then one occasion.