In Opinion: Commercial photographer Blair Bunting challenges you to embrace the notion that all art is more than just an expression, but a feeling that can inspire further creation.
Of all the arts available to mankind, my heart belongs to music. Perhaps it’s a sentiment that doesn’t serve my self-interest much, as my only achievements in the arts have come through. The fact that my creativity has come by way of visuals has not been from lack of attempts in the audio world. Ten years of playing the piano as a child has given me the gift of being able to play one verse from Beethoven’s 5th at a cocktail party.
In many ways I believe that fate had determined that I shouldn’t have taken guitar lessons, and instead that I should be practicing composition of the visual order through a viewfinder. It is for this reason that when I had the opportunity to create a photo series around musicians, I truly had the time of my life on set. I was vicariously living through them as we went through different motions of playing guitar and jamming out.
It wasn’t untill we wrapped for lunch and I sat with the musicians and talked about what drove them that I found the correlations between photography and music are more similar than I thought. It wasn’t necessarily performance or being seen that mattered to them, but rather the need to have an expression, just like I have felt about photography.
Normally on a photo shoot I only take a few minutes off for lunch, as I don’t really like to eat during a shoot for fear that it’ll slow me down. Thankfully I have an assistant who always carries Snickers so that I don’t get hangry. However, on this shoot, things were a bit different as the conversations I had with the models made me think even harder into how I could express what they had just talked about with my camera.
As photographers, we have many different approaches to the same art. And just as we go into our workflow of creating differently, many of us also view photography’s place in our lives differently. For me, I’ve found that I need to create. It isn’t about money, publicity or fame. It’s about making sure I have the opportunity to show the world what I see before my time is over.
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