When we’re full of ourselves, art cannot flow through us, neither can our richest experience of life. Often when I’m teaching a photography workshop, there is an initial discomfort among participants around ’emptying their cup’. Everyone has brought expectations, preconceived ways of seeing, established ideas about photography, themselves, and often a serious agenda for the […]
In recent posts I’ve written about the Zen of Seeing as a mindfulness practice. Another way Zen figures into the quality of our seeing, and therefore our photography practice, is that it offers a set of visual disciplines, or guidelines for aesthetic beauty. Much of Japanese culture puts the value of beauty—the importance, articulation and […]