Thursday, December 24, 2009

Am i teaching or am i sharing?

I don’t really consider myself teaching when I’m in class. To me, it is more towards sharing experience between a lecturer and students. Although I’m a lecturer, on daily basis I really need to produce photograph that able quench my thirst towards my interest.

Sometimes, my students are better than me in certain aspect. We share everything and we completed each other. Photojournalism is mainly related to people. As a photojournalist, I really love to study people emotion and reaction as a subject matter. I could felt their feelings; I would like to know what they're thinking about.

It is a huge responsibility for photojournalist to document the event that happens today. Everything documented are for the next generation and they’re responsible to continue the legacy for generation after them. We know nothing of what happen in the past without documented visual or information.

A lecturer should respect a students in order to gain respects from others...

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

PHOTGRAPHERS AND POLITICS

This is a routine of a photographers job who's working with a company.
1. Received assignment from his/her superior for tomorrow.
2. Prepare all the necessary equipments.
3. Shoot the event or assignment.
4. Download and do the necessary retouching needed.
5. Upload the files
6. Job is done

Recently, photographers are tend to get themselves involved in politics. This is not politics which involved political parties. To be exact, office politics. Whatever that i wrote are from my experience or observation and information from my colleagues working from several companies. The new routine :

1. Received assignment from his/her superior for tomorrow.
2. Call other people and talk bad about the boss. Argue, why he/her was not given a better assignment
3. Prepare all the necessary equipments.
4. So equipment oriented. Always think that by getting new equipments would be able to produce good photographs. Staff never think about the reason for not purchasing new equipments.
3. Shoot the event or assignment. While shooting, still talking about office politics and keep on talking about his/her superior.
4. Download and do the necessary retouching needed.While downloading, he/her still negatively talk bad about he/her office politics and boss.
5. Upload the files.While uploading, he/her continuously talk bad about he/her office politics and boss.
6. Job is done. Not really. Go for teh tarik and continuously talking about his/her office matters.

Being a boss or managing a group of people wasn't easy. There's nobody in this world ask to hated by others. Always think about what contribution that a person could give. Stop thinking or anticipate what your boss would do wrong. In my honest opinion, photographers and politics doesn't goes along. Just do your job and go home be happy about it.

Stay positive, keep that positive aura within you...