Making pictures versus taking them

Amos Nachoum · Issue 15, Oct/Nov 2003 · pp. 16–23

Products mentioned: Nikon F-3, Nikonos III, Sea&Sea YS 200 strobes, Fuji 100 ASA film, 16mm fisheye lens, 18mm lens, 15mm lens, Neutral Density gelatin filter

16 Making pictures versus taking them by Amos Nachoum Several years after I had started taking pictures and after accumulating over 500,000 slides, I paused. It dawned on me that I had been doing too much of the same thing all these years and it was getting boring, just taking pictures. My frustration was reflected by the thousands of disharmoniously colored yellow (Kodak) and green (Fuji) film boxes that surrounded me, but it was also this frustration, disarray and chaos that eventually made me to think differently. At the same time I was spending days, sometimes weeks, editing images after returning from a trip and it became so overwhelming that some projects were only edited a year later. It was from these drawn out delays and retroactive editing sessions that my most powerful lessons and transformations arose – Dare to ….imagine and see what is not in the picture. Dare to … listen to…