God I was in such a bad place in the early part of this year. I really let the MA course get on top of me and it distorted my whole perspective on life and photography. I have been rereading my blog entries and editing them for inclusion in my photobook of the year and I realise that I was getting quite ill. I suspect some small part of this was a fear as to what the future may hold if I dropped out of the course - well almost 12 months on I now know that the future is nothing to be feared but rather to be embraced as you truly do not know what is going to happen - this is a very valuable lesson to learn especially when you read so much tripe written about what to expect in the next 6 months/year/10 years and so on. No one knows - you just have to figure it out as you go along.
Perhaps this is most important things I have learnt over the last 12 months - oh and having an MA in photography doesn't really mean anything other than the satisfaction of completing the course. Not completing the course doesn't make you a bad person - nor does it make you a bad photographer. It is just one of a infinite number of ways forward. If only I had realised this at the start of the course. Ah well - ce la vie.
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