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Doing a little bit everyday.

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Updated: Jun 12, 2020

Like every other day of this lockdown, I got up at 8, just to sleep two more hours. Then, as usual, I picked up my laptop which opened up with Akira Kurasawa's Dream still playing from the last night. I clicked the play button with two boiled eggs in my lap. After finishing that I saw a series of photographer interviews done by Martin Parr. I really enjoyed those interviews. They were informative, to the point and had something for a photographer like me who is still meditating on what to do with the skill and which way to proceed.


Martin asked them about the projects they did. How did they go about executing them, found the subjects and were able to take the pictures?


Most of them emphasized on undertaking one's own project in the beginning, to practice authorship. It's important to gain that confidence that's needed to make an artwork and take full responsibility for it. Art is an unforgiving field (money-wise). It keeps on throwing back the doubtful glance at you, making you question yourself every day, 'will I survive here or will I give up being an artist and jump back to what everyone else is doing?’ So I think it just depends on how adamant one is and how necessary it is to take pictures, to tell stories for a photographer. Doing a little bit everyday is the most important practice one can have.


Martin Parr - England. New Brighton - On the beach - 1984


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