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<blockquote data-quote="Vincent" data-source="post: 328531" data-attributes="member: 15675">I was trying to stay into photography on this forum. This goes a lot more into philosophy.Categorisation like the one above is the basis of discrimination, do not get me wrong, I´m pro discrimination, since it is the basis of any choice. Photography is all about choice.However if you start to limit your categories, you have to generalise and thus you start to assign properties to people they do not have. Again generalisations are absolutely needed, the concept is called bounded rationality, it won a Nobel price and we would get stuck if we tried to avoid them.So my take on this. We indeed know the photographers we meet and what way the conversations can go and where they stop. I generally would say the picture speaks, the quality of the photographer will make that they create more or less pictures that speak, the material is probably the least in the equation. I looked at a documentary on David Bailey in the last days, I guess he is closest to &quot;I shoot film only&quot;, from the statement &quot;I take hardly any pictures on a photoshoot&quot;. But what I found most marking was that he stated &quot;I have no photography style, well I do and I know what it is, but I do not want others to limit my pictures to that.&quot; Be open and enjoy the enjoyable pictures, ignore the others; do not limit yourself to a certain club of photographers.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vincent, post: 328531, member: 15675"] I was trying to stay into photography on this forum. This goes a lot more into philosophy. Categorisation like the one above is the basis of discrimination, do not get me wrong, I´m pro discrimination, since it is the basis of any choice. Photography is all about choice. However if you start to limit your categories, you have to generalise and thus you start to assign properties to people they do not have. Again generalisations are absolutely needed, the concept is called bounded rationality, it won a Nobel price and we would get stuck if we tried to avoid them. So my take on this. We indeed know the photographers we meet and what way the conversations can go and where they stop. I generally would say the picture speaks, the quality of the photographer will make that they create more or less pictures that speak, the material is probably the least in the equation. I looked at a documentary on David Bailey in the last days, I guess he is closest to "I shoot film only", from the statement "I take hardly any pictures on a photoshoot". But what I found most marking was that he stated "I have no photography style, well I do and I know what it is, but I do not want others to limit my pictures to that." Be open and enjoy the enjoyable pictures, ignore the others; do not limit yourself to a certain club of photographers.:) [/QUOTE]

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