Photography is extremely multifaceted, so much so that not even all experienced photographers realize this. Everyone thinks about genres, exhibitions, publications, the process, and technology...but few people think about higher metaphysical topics with the help of photography.
For me, photography is a whole multiverse that touches almost all spheres of life.
I used to talk about different frequencies, creative waves, genres (which is about the same thing), as if they were different worlds.
For me, all genres were like separate moods that rarely intersected with each other.
But over the years, the sensations of different frequencies and switching between them become blurred, as if the boundaries are blurred.
And the switching between genres (moods, creative waves) occurs smoothly, imperceptibly and very often intersecting with other genres.
I can now photograph a spotted street and at the same moment take a reportage photo, I can take a landscape, I can take a beautiful portrait or even graphics.
...I need to find the post where I already mentioned this, that I came to a common global spotty principle. It's like one big creative wave that controls all the smaller waves.
It seems to me that now I have switched to another global wave and it will be reportage. It may also have dappling and graphicity as one of the creative techniques, but this is no longer the basis.
I cannot yet accurately describe in words what is now the basis of the reporting principle. Probably, this is some kind of specific approach to shooting, a message, there are some techniques of a certain nature in it.
That is, I feel any genre now in a different way, in a reportage-like way. Whether it's a landscape or a street scene, even nighttime photos are now different in mood, although they may not be noticeable.
It was as if the internal code in me had changed and I began to see and perceive everything differently.
It's very interesting! A year or two ago, I argued something completely different, that physics or geometry, spots and lines were the main thing, and I used this technique everywhere, even in a report.
And now reportage has penetrated into all my creative waves, genres, moods, frequencies.
I could draw it schematically, as if I gradually go through each principle of shooting and use it in all genres, then the principle changes to another and then also applies to all genres.
I wonder what will change this principle of shooting, what is it now at the moment?
But I won't puzzle over it, I'm primarily in the role of an observer and a fixator.
I'll stay in the reporting principle for now, and maybe I'll stay in it forever.
Even at the beginning of the post, I mentioned blurring the boundaries, so, in the reporting principle, everything will be the same, everything is the same, and you don't need to catch any particular mood to capture a spotty street.
It happened that a particular genre didn't work, as if it turned me off from it. It seems to me that now I am included in everything at once!
If I suddenly need or want to, I can also take pictures of the night yards!