On The Flow of The Creative Energy

“Art is the free expression of our souls and passion its creative force. The function of an artist is not to capture this creative energy but to allow it to freely flow from the most intimate personal source within us and out into the world. When an artist indulges in mental masturbation, the connection to the soul gets lost, and social, moral and personal manmade codes block the free flux of this boundless source.” - Guido Luciani

movement

A fellow photographer once told me this about my work … “while we - other photographers - all strive to capture movement, you have somehow managed to unleash it instead”. Today … feeling not only my own physical limitations but those related to the harsh winter weather in the place I now live, I need to remind myself of his words.

CURRENTLY WORKING ON THIS POST - PLEASE COME BACK LATER

need to shoot

photos to illustrate this NOTES TO MYSELF section and CASTING NOTES videos

I need to take some self-portraits to illustrate this new section of my website and … at the same time … test different clothing I could wear for the first CASTING STORIES video shoot.

WHY IS THIS RELEVANT? … because some of my best photos have come from what was intended to be a straightforward shoot like these ones. These “subjects” are usually just the starting points … an excuse for me to setup and get in front of the camera … once there … I just follow the flow of energy … if there’s no energy? I will then get some photos I need.

SOME IDEAS I HAD:
- White dress shirt with black pants … no shoes
- In Montréal I used to write these notes all over the mirror doors of the closets … some photo along those lines?

street photography

I have always been a people photographer. There was a time - and this is always the case when I move to a new city where I don’t know anyone - when I had to “steal” glances and public moments of perfect strangers to satisfy my need to “set free” - never capture - those aspects of humanity I find colorful, inspiring, curious or simply put: worth sharing.

The “energy” of the city is a huge motivator for me so - the more people in the city - chances are the energy will be greater and so will be my interest in photographing its streets. But unfortunately, intensity could also be repelling and the energy from people I find uninteresting could block my creativity rather than inspire it.

The thought: as I prepare to go to Los Angeles next week for a photo assignment … could I reconnect with that city’s energy and dust off my street photography skills?

If I will … you’ll be looking at photos on The Lightbox on this website.

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RELATED INFORMATION

Current FEATURED GALLERY on the PHOTOGRAPHY section of this website

On a Life With No Limits

“The achievement of a life with no-limits is only possible to those who bear nothing but love in their hearts.” 

The Idea for “Awakening The Energy: Recharging”

Awakening The Energy: Recharging - was the starting point for this series of photoshoots documenting my own process of awakening the energy in order to break through the impermeable shell.
The idea behind this session was to amass as much energy as possible through movement and transcend the limitation of my physical body.