This year is the first time that I am attempting to celebrate the October First week properly, with a few events. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, here’s a short form of the short explanation. On October 1st 2006 I photographed this:
and this image has changed my life forever. Firstly it was the catalyst for meeting my friend Alyssa, who is one of the most influential on me of all photographers I have yet met. She taught me everything I knew at the time about portrait photography. The second thing this image did for me was to move me to think about why it was that it looked pretty, compared to all my other images at the time. This was about the first time that I ever questioned whether there were any guidelines, or things that I could do in order to more or less for sure produce a pleasant looking image. As a result, my present two photography workshops were born Photographing Consciously and Photography as Perception.
So on the week of October 1st, I plan on organizing meetings, talks, photo shoots, with the purpose of inspiring and raising awareness about inspiration and what it can do in people’s lives. Read more about October First 2012 Events.
For Monday’s meet I put together an ePamphlet on inspiration in photography. Download it here as a PDF or view it in your browser as images below.
