Photography

Photography's main focus isn't necessarily to capture beauty. If we use beauty as a way to measure the quality of a picture, then we'd run into the subjective question of “What is beauty”. As I've gotten to capture more pictures, it's not just about the beauty, it's about what kind of reality you want to showcase inside those 4 corners. 

Is this a photo-realistic reality that's showing? Is it an idealized frame that could exist or a past that had existed? Is it an ideal like God, flawless and perfect that it closely resembles heaven? Or are you trying to show what the puts of hell’s wrath? Or an augmented version of pain and suffering you “subjectively” see when others aren't in tune with the process?

 Photography lends you the eye and skill to see reality and gives you the option to adjust, extrudate, distort, romanticize, and in the end create a narrative for viewers to get lost in. A building is not just a building in the eyes of a photographer. Like an artist, it sees the story of how each acre was designed, how it slowly progressed with each brick was placed, its opening day, the refugees people find on the roofs, both the romantic lovers have their first kiss or other mourning days.

 All these stories lie in the building and it's up to the photographer to be an ambassador to introduce a vision and version of the building no one can show. You choose to show a frame of paused reality to understand what's going on. You are responsible for the image you show and the twist of distortion (or an idealized yet possible reality) is shown. You have the power of narration, the power to convince viewers of your way of reality, or a perspective on a topic they yearn to find some grounded conviction for mental peace.