Does your photo have any meaning? To be honest, it probably does.
Yesterday was Halloween and I wanted to take a frightening photograph, that was my aim, no self discovery or self portraiture was intented, here it is:
All I wanted was a scary and simple picture to celebrate Halloween. Today I noticed there was more to the picture than I could have ever imagined. Once in a book I read that every photo you take is a reflection of yourself, with this piece, I understood what that meant.
In the picture, the subject (me) has no mouth, a lens only in the left eye and it’s just the head. I didn’t think of all these elements, I simply went adding and removing stuff, the only goal was to keep it simple and scary. Now let’s see what my life has been lately, a few weeks ago, I went to the doctor and she said i needed glasses but that only my left eye needed help this eplains the lens only being in the left eye. Then, for the past few weeks Ihardly spoke, I was on holiday and I’ve lived in my city for only 2 months, so I practically know no one ergo, I didn’t speak, that explains why I don’t have a mouth. And last but not least, lately I feel stuck, I found out that what I’m studying (physics and math) doesn’t really suit me, I thought that that was what I wanted to do, in order to become a rocket scientist later on, but turns out I don’t like it, so now I’m stuck, i can’t move from my undesired career, which explains why is it only the head, it can’t move on its own, it is stuck.
As you can see, although I didn’t mean for the photo to have any meaning, it is a perfect reflection of my life at the moment. So that’s my challenge for you today, find the meaning in your photography, I assure you, it is there.
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