Monday, March 16th, 2009

Out of the dark, into the light!

How many good photographs are stored somewhere deep in a
fancy organised folder structure on your hard drive? Will they ever see light again?

Over the last 27 years, I have been shooting over two hundred thousand photos. What happens with them? Of course, the photos shot on client assignments, for model projects, during sporting events or wedding have been processed, delivered, and invoiced. But what with that photograph of the sweet green frog you captured on your last bush walk, or that one specially sweet image from the TFP shoot you did 2 years ago?  Aren’t photographs meant to capture moments in time so we can share them? Instead of having them sitting on our hard-drives, we should start to print them again! Because…

Photos just look better on paper…

the bigger, the better. Even sharing photographs on websites and blogs is nice, but nothing really compares to an actual print. For me personally, I much prefer to hand over a “real photograph” instead of sending files by email. Somehow printed images are more “valuable”, have more weight, are more “important”.

And then there is the next level: Published photos. People you never met see your images, and your “creations” are seen in a different context, become part of a product, a book, a magazine, a story! My first photograph was published in Switzerland a long time ago, but I still remember the day as if it was yesterday. It was very exciting and I was a very proud 18 year old. Since then, photos of mine have been published in Europe, in the USA, in Australia and in Asia, in newspapers, magazines, on cd-covers and books. And just like 24 years ago, I find it very exciting every single time one of my images find its way “out of the dark, into the light“.