“If you really want to take interesting photographs, you should not try to”
Hans Aarsman is a man who one day, in the middle of his career, sold all his cameras and stopped being a professional photographer.
How he got to that point and how photography managed to get him back, he explained last year at TEDx Amsterdam:
Aarsman recently started an English language photography blog that might interest you.
He is also the guy behind the Kleine Hans award.
(Video: Vimeo/TEDx)
Really an interesting video: I have to think some about his idea that photography is playing with memory rather than just with light.
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