Photography is poetry


 In todays world, a photograph is a poem without words. Because I guess in the past, the only 'pictures' they had were poems. “Photography” means painting with light.


So we guess that as photographers, we are just modern-day painters. Except we have different tools at our disposal.


 Life is short if we make photographs for only our generation. I believe as photographers and artists, we should endeavor to make images that can inspire our future generations.

That means, make photos which are timeless. Photos that will still emotionally resonate with your future kids, their future kids, and their future kids kids.

The ancient poems of the past talked about human relationships. In Homer’s Illiad, the emotions of the characters are very much like our ‘modern’ emotions. They are the same. They are envious, afraid, and jealous. Achilles has too much pride, which gets the better half of him.

Today, we have very human emotions like jealousy, envy, fear, anger, disgust, pride, happiness, joy, serenity, tranquility, and love. I feel that as photographers, we should aim to capture these emotions in our images, if we want the future generations to connect and relate with our images.

“I have realized the best poetry is that which is useful, practical, and teaches us moral lessons. I love the work we do, which is not only vivid in terms of imagery, but encourages us to ‘seize the day’ (carpe diem) as each day were our last.”