The current use and easy access to mobile devices with a camera has meant that most of us call ourselves photographers. Obviously, there is a difference between those who practise photography as a hobby and those who do it in a disciplined and professional manner; however, the act of shooting a camera and obtaining an image can be done by anyone; what places us before a certainty: everything is already photographed.

Nevertheless, the approaches known by a professional with years of experience putting different techniques to practise is not comparable to what an amateur does with their phone. If you are looking for professionalism and having memorable photographs from a remarkable event in your life such as your wedding, here at Fuss Photography you will find what you look for.

So, the rise of smartphones has led us to have a visual record of everything that exists and, therefore, it no longer makes sense to develop photographic projects? In the last decade, more photographs have been taken than those made during the 191 years since the first image in history was taken; however, as a photographer in development, I find this statement very overwhelming and at the same time realistic. It makes us think that there is no point in continuing on that path, that we will only repeat what someone else has already done. Although all is not lost, there is still a hopeful outlook.

Photographs have considerably grown in popularity as time goes by since they give a perfect visual description on how something looks like. They can simply make anything more realistic, something that could never be possible before when people had to write many lines to describe a specific scenario or landscape. Photography is a science that has unveiled an entirely different world of possibilities, and although many photographs may be repeated, they are millions of tricks and techniques that can make one photograph different from the rest.

The importance of photography

In the cinema the whole weight of the idea behind a film is attributed to the director, who does not even write the script and much less does he manage the camera, but in photography it is hard to dissociate the artist from the one who shoots the camera. Being a photographer goes far beyond clicking and obtaining an image as a result, implies a whole concept behind, a search to be able to transmit a specific feeling or emotion, a story, a position before the world and an extension of who you are.

Why should someone become a photographer?

The Spanish theorist Joan Fontcuberta -who is also an artist, teacher, essayist, critic and promoter of art specialised in photography- has published more than 10 theoretical works referring to the image, in “La Cámara de Pandora (The Pandora Box)” (2010) he talks about how “contemporary creation resorts to the appointment and reflection on an earlier imaginary and, in doing so, fixes as a working material the registers of experiences that preceded us. In this sense, the images are put at the service of a reflection on memory”; just in this is the key to why each photographer proposes something different, simply because each individual is different.

 Reasons to become a photographer:

Our perception of the world leads us to interpret the information we receive through our senses, and mould it according to our values, opinions, ways of thinking and more. This is what happens with what our eyes see before the photographic taking, what surrounds us is conditioned by the idea that we think about what we want to tell.

For example, two people can stand in front of the same situation, both with a camera in their hands and it is almost certain that they will not get the same image. Each head is an entire different world that we do not know, because a photographer is also all the films he has seen, the books he has read, the music he has heard, the people he has loved, the places he has known, the positive and negative situations that He has experienced and what he has learned along the way.

 What is the photograph for?

Some people have more radical positions and propose to work in the visual arts, completely abandoning photography to focus on a reinterpretation of a discourse from existing material. An example is the project that appropriates satellite images from platforms such as Google Earth, develops an idea based on a certain thematic axis and works on research, search, selection of photos and editing, to compose a final work of character visual without having captured it with a lens; although it is a valid option, like any other form of exploration, it is not the only alternative.

Therefore, we must keep alive the opportunity to transmit to the other, through a photograph, the different perceptions of what we want to tell. Communication is a necessity, so when we have something to say, take advantage of the tools and technology to do it, only then can we give the world different visions with which it can connect and identify.

Photographs make us reflect on who we are and our environment, it is also a way to convey the difficulties that many of us have gone through, such as the photographer who portrayed the loneliness and torment of her daughter becoming a woman.

Here at Fuss Photography our main purpose is to materialise what you have in mind as the “perfect photograph of my wedding” and make it real with the help of our highly qualified professionals. If you are looking for a highly qualified team that is able to carry out operations in an unmatched way, here at Fuss Photography you will find them.

Fuss Photography is a business with the experience required to take those unbelievable shots you have been looking for so long. You must have in mind that these photographs will be your most important memory in some years when you decide to look back at that special day. Fuss Photography is a reliable option for you.