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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