Photography isn’t just about capturing a beautiful subject with your camera, but for the most part, that is what most people with a camera or even a phone camera does.. If the world is perfect, that would be the case, but it also about capturing what is considered “not beautiful” or for the lack of a better word, “ugly.” Why not show two sides of the coin. In the ideal world, everything is beautiful. That’s the reason why fashion photography, advertising photography and magazine editorials try to focus on beauty, to try to show what is ideal. And then you have the opposite of this, that is the documentary and photojournalism. These genres focus on the reality of life in all its glory. In some ways, with these genres, photography is about storytelling. It tells the reality of what the subject of the picture is or a series of pictures. Well, it is not to say that fashion and advertising photography is not about storytelling. But the storytelling that comes with fashion and advertising photography is a manufactured one, just like a Hollywood film. So when doing photography, think of it as a way to tell a story. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Why not create a photograph (for fashion photography or advertising photography) or not capture a photograph (for documentary or photojournalism) that tells a thousand words. And with a series of photographs around one subject or theme, this could be a million words. Photography is a tool for telling a story the same way a computer is used by a novelist write her story.
