Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Walker Evans
I have been interested in photography since I was a child and took my first real picture with my mom’s camera when I was close to five years old. Before that, however, I already had my own toy camera. About two and a half years later I got my first real camera. The first pictures I have that I took with my own camera are black and white pictures taken on a summer vacation when I was seven years old.
At thirteen, I was on Bornholm with seventh grade and had invested in a new Canon Prima 5 camera before the trip. One of the tasks on the trip was to make a Bornholm folder about our experiences. I took a lot of pictures on the trip and they all ended up in the folder. Afterwards my class teacher wrote “You have taken some incredibly good photographs on the trip”.
The following year I took an after school class in photography and a few years later at the efterskole1 I went to, I had photography as an elective.
It isn’t the alphabet that’s important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography.
Andre Kertesz
At the age of twenty-six, I bought my first DSLR. The transition to a digital camera meant that I no longer had to spend money on film and development, making it cheaper and easier to play with the medium and try things out. Since then, I have learned a lot about photography through photography books, online courses and playing with the medium.
A few years later, When I was doing an internship at Mira Data, I did a little bit of product photography and some portraits of the employees. furthermore, I have photographed several weddings, Evangelical-Lutheran confirmations and similar events.
For a number of years I also made my own Christian Christmas cards. However, that tradition died in the summer of 2017 when, in trembling anxiety, I left Christianity because I could no longer in good conscience remain a Christian.
Who wrote the rule that says you can only have one favorite color? And why limit our response? Life is much too short to live with such a small palette.
Chris Orwig, Visual Poetry