Something Like Telling A Really Deep Story

If you ever asked yourself, why this site is called DESTROYPHOTOGRAPHY, here is why:

And I don’t want to engage here in a futile discussion about what “authenticity” means, or if professionalism in photography is a good or bad thing. Kudos to the stone-cold face of the photographer while talking about “a really deep story”. But if you want to have an example where Susan Sontag’s rage about the photograph being embedded into a furious circulation of commodity and capital comes from, here it is.

The observing photographer(me?!), who struggles to make ends meet and tries to make a career completes the perverted triangle when he indulges in an endless stream of videos that show you “how to get better”, “how to make it into a hyper-competitive field of work”, “how to make a career” and so on. And within this thriving eco-system of photography that now mostly makes its money from pushing gear and how-to-books and workshops that pretend to teach you to make photos – who is left to look at the images? We are now on the threshold where more images are produced than we can ever look at. If everybody wants to be a popstar, who will find the time to listen to the music? If this does not make you want to drop your camera for good, I don’t know what will…

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