Eric Fredine Landscapes
via Conscientious

I quite like some of these landscapes, but why are photographers always spouting stuff like, 'I seek to see beyond the literal subject matter of my photographs and reveal underlying truths'? If you stacked all the 'underlying truths' supposedly revealed by today's photographers on top of each other they would probably stretch to the moon and back, and still no-one would be any the wiser. Of course, the trouble is that photographers are desperate to be seen as 'artists' - partly, no doubt, because the galleries that represent them can charge punters more and pocket fatter commissions by marketing them as such. But claiming to be an artist doesn't make you one; that's for posterity to decide. Photography is a transparent and totally superficial medium, and that's its great strength. Aesthetically a photograph is either good, bad or indifferent, and no amount of quasi-philosophical guff can change that fact. You never heard the great pioneers of photography wittering on about underlying truths; their concern was with the image alone. So please, let the photograph speak for itself, and leave the underlying truths where they belong. Rant over.