make your photos speak

Tell a story with parts. Too often we think that people need to see everything to understand. Often the opposite is true. If you show everything – people think about the specific situation. If you show them part of the scene, they fill in the blanks with what they know and understand and relate more deeply to the image.

Let people fill in the blanks – don’t give them all the information. You will connect with more people by giving them to relate to the story on their own terms.

If the individual viewer realizes that for him what he sees in a picture corresponds to something within himself that is, the photograph mirrors something in himself then his experience is some degree of Equivalence. Minor White

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