What are you going to show?
At the start of a new photo project, the question of what to show inevitably arises. What is your angle and how are you going to visualise it?
When I was recently browsing through my old photos and notes, I came across photos that I had made for an earlier mentorship with the theme 'Young'. The aim of that project was to portray your dreams as a seventeen-year-old.
Seventeen years old. The world at your feet. Thinking you know everything. But what do you really know? What can you predict about the future? Even your own future is uncertain. It all depends on the choices you make and the opportunities you get.
Do you show what you want to become or what you think you will become?
To express this in images is not so easy. For what are you going to show? What you want to become or what you think you are going to become? That makes a big difference. The first is already difficult. Who, at seventeen, already knows what he wants to be? But that is always easier than thinking about what you are going to be. Your dreams and expectations of what you will become are probably not the same. Which one is better to capture in an image? A dream can quickly become clichéd. Director, fireman, policeman or doctor, what child doesn't dream of that?
Do you crush dreams?
I actually find it interesting to hear what is expected in addition to these dreams. Or are you destroying beautiful dreams with this? Would it be better to start this project with adults who can look back on their earlier dreams?
Food for a good conversation!