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Does anyone else still use Flickr? I still post like it’s 2014 and Olivia Bee just got in 20 under 20.
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I actually don’t know as much as I’d like about photography but Girl Pictures shaped who I am so….
(Olivia Bee is great too I love flikr)
Dec 11, 2024
I couldn’t possibly decide my fav pic I’ve ever taken, but recently I rediscovered my old flicker. it contains a lot of photos from when I was a volunteer gig photographer for various online publications as a teenager. I stopped doing this because one mag I was working for, upon receiving these images of Bo Ningen and Band of Skulls, told me that my photos weren't good because “the focal point needs to be the band and not the microphones or stage equipment”. My quitting wasn’t out of a belief that i was bad, but that if doing that job meant not seeing the beauty in the silhouette of a microphone, or a mess of tangled cables, then I didn’t want to do it. I love these photos on Flickr I took as a teen, I’m so proud of her constant and unyielding creativity.
Mar 30, 2024
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Rant incoming: we need to place more value on printed photography rather than treating photographs merely as objects of our brief attention. I can physically feel a need for this. A real object of memory that we can hold and keep and watch fade. A piece of art on your wall to look at every day that reminds you of another time, a place you’ve been, a person you’ve been, how you felt. I’m so glad that film photography still exists, and that people actually care here. It scares me to think that it might not one day, and that my kids might not be able to experience the pure joy and magic of shooting film.
It also scares me to look at photography’s place in the commercial art world, and how devalued it is in the past couple years. I know a big reason for this is obviously that they can be reproduced, but I also think a lot of people don’t see the value in photography anymore. after IG became a mall. we should all be buying prints. If everyone was buying prints, the economy would probably be way better and then the film industry would be saved and photographers could live ❤️
I reserve the right to edit this post when I’m not stoned anymore
One more thing: the minute i started thinking about photography less like journaism and more like painting i felt so much better about everything. it just made sense finally. Idk how to explain it. It doesnt have to be fast. it doesn’t even have to make sense.
Mar 3, 2024
Apr 9, 2025
Gently and compassionately learn to trust yourself. You don’t have to be so perfect all the time.
Sorry for the graphic sink pic.
Mar 7, 2024