Innovate or imitate

Some photographers say that amateurs imitate and professionals steal. What does that mean? Is it true that photographers don’t use their own ideas to produce something new? There is no single answer to this question, but what I see around me every day is imitations – it is impossible to invent something new. So why go on taking pictures? When every idea is an imitation. When there are millions and billions of pictures out there already.

I have a different idea about photography. It’s not about imitation. It’s not about stealing. It’s about what you want with your photograpy. It’s about inside and outside.
We se hundreds of photographs every day and most of them are just documentation. It’s about the outside world.
But once in a while you stop and look at that one picture that tells you something. Something that touches you, and you can realate to. Something that tells you something about you own life.
That’s about the inside world. It’s about honesty and realting to other people. It’s about wanting to tell a story or an emotion. It’s about comunication, and that’s what photography is all about.