A few years ago at the LaCour Business of Story Telling Workshop in Atlanta I gave a presentation about a photographers creative calling.
This is my heart and the words bare repeating.
“Photography is not just a business, it’s a calling. Our immediate challenge is to see our community, neighborhood, and work as a visual
landscape that speaks a language in need of translation. I want you to be infected with a new desire to see your life through new eyes.
Our job is to change the world with the gift of sight. The world spins around in a blur of average moments and lost memories. Your pictures
can cause people to stand still and drink in beauty or cry at injustice. In addition your creativity can ignite a renewed sense of wonder inside
those that are around you as well as those on the other side of the world.
This is your calling: To live as a picture pastor that brings new eyes to an image saturated landscape. To help us move our focus from
the trite and trivial to the substantial and real. To be a visual philosopher who thinks critically about the world around and captures moments
of beauty with a childlike curiousity and enthusiasm.
