To shoot personal street photography is to only photograph what appeals in your heart. To use your street photography as a tool to empathise with your subject. To show your own soul through the photos you shoot of others.via How to Shoot Personal Street Photography by Eric Kim.
Iain S. Thomas on Art and Empathy:
[nice artists] create because they want to describe the world to others so that they won’t make the same mistakes or so that they’ll know what to look out for. They’re extreme empaths and if you’re extremely empathetic, you’re extremely good at communicating and art is about communicating a feelings from a thing to a person.via Intentional Dissonance by Iain S. Thomas.
Niceness is a symptom of empathy. It means you understand how someone else feels and if you understand how someone else feels, it nearly always means you care about them and if you care about them then you’re nearly always nice to them.via Intentional Dissonance by Iain S. Thomas.
Seth Godin on Empathy:
Empathy doesn't involve feeling sorry for someone. It is our honest answer to the question, "why did they do what they did?" [..]via Empathy by Seth Godin.Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
You can approach the photograph formally and study its composition, you can study its visual content, but you can also feel something here.via PROJECT PROFILES: Ute Mahler – Zusammenleben (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).
To be able to make photographs that convey feelings is an immense gift, but of course in part it is rooted in being able to be susceptible to what other people might feel.
Photographers’ empathy (or lack thereof) is a topic that is rarely discussed.
