I know I have been very quiet in this journal and in the way of submissions for a significant part of the first few months of this year. One of the things that have been bothering me is a creative and artistic use of my digital camera. As you can see from my recent submissions, I think I have found one. It is a strange phenomenon though and something entirely different from what I am used to. One of the things I noticed when I was choosing the photos to show was that a lot of these photos could not be given a context outside the context they were in themselves. The photos of the parade (of which I will probably upload some more) this was particularly the case.

The fun of working the way I have been for the past few years was that I was creating concepts out of the blue, expressing things that I felt needed to be expressed and shaping my works to fit them. I was thinking that I had to do something similar with the photos I took on liberation day, but this is not the case. Quite to the contrary. There are two things that are very wrong about giving a context or a title to a journalistic photo that does not correspond with the cold facts of the moment: if you decide to twist the context of the photo with a witty title or perhaps a cynical comment you might be very creative and be the laugh of the party, but you're also damaging the reality you were trying to capture with the photo. Words is simply not what photojournalism is about. Per definition. So there you'll have it. Photos I took with no stimulating titles or considerations.

I must say this is quite a revelation for me, because it means creating something that needs no explanation and has a right to exist all by itself. I think it might even help to complete my creative being, because in all those works where I searched and pondered on the meaning of life, there was never any real life. The sort of life that is experienced and not analysed. Both elements are important, but neither should rule above the other.