I once saw a documentary about Bhutan and how it had changed the measurement of its government’s success from the gross domestic product (GDP) metric to a metric of gross national happiness. As if that alone wouldn’t be intriguing enough (and I do think others should follow that example), there were scenes from a school were children had written on the wall lists of the most important values. One of these values, prominently written in large letters was: resilience.
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All photos are in a rectangular format. Our photographic window to the world has a geometrical shape. We are so used to this, that one has to think for a moment to realize that this is a rather strange state of affairs. When we look around a landscape our outlook (literally) hasn’t any shape and there are few to no rectangles or squares in nature.
In a way, the rectangular shape of the view in a photo indicates already that there is a person looking. Somehow, consciously or unconsciously, a photographer has to take this into account, when taking a photograph.
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