With the continuing advancement of technology, people's interaction with the world and each other has strayed from the use of words to that of images. It then becomes a challenge as photographer to 1. Do something unique and 2. Produces images that will have an impact on people.
I had an instructor while at the Metropolitan State College of Denver who told myself and a room full of pseudo (student) photographers, to say about the world we live in today. Photos are history records and tools to convey a message or feeling to the viewer. I don't consider myself a commercial photographer, a photojournalist, a portrait photographer and any kind of specialist photographer just yet. I don't know which aspect will capture my interest full heartedly, but I do I hope that my images say something about what's going on around me. As for now, I'm earning a bachelor's degree in photography from the Art Institute of Colorado, making one photo at a time and aspiring to be a visionary.
"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time, he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war." -Pablo Picasso
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