Express > Impress

Light & Thought

Express > Impress

Light & Thought

There’s this sentence from psychoanalysis:
“Live your life to express the true you, not to impress others.”
Photographer Vincent Peters once asked:
“Do you want to impress with your images, or express through them?”
Now that the likes are fading, the real question appears:
Why do you shoot?
When your images come from within—not for others, but from your truth—something changes.
That’s where integrity begins.
That’s where your voice lives.

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Related reflections from the same space.
More thoughts that speak in the same tone.

Audience Comes Last

Rick Rubin said it best:
“Audience comes last.” It feels backwards—but it’s not. Trying to please makes the work quieter.
Trying to be real makes it speak. Create from your core, not from someone else’s expectations.
The right people will feel it.
Eventually....

She rested her head on the water.

She rested her head on the water.

She didn’t say much that day. And maybe she didn’t need to. The rock stood still. The water moved. And she found a place in between. I didn’t ask her to pose like that. She just… let go.

Finding Your Fire

“What if I don’t know what I want yet?” That question is real. And necessary. Almost no one starts with clarity.
You begin by trying things.
Shooting what feels right. Then wrong. Then almost right. Over time, your eye forms.
But more than that—your instinct forms....