Why Make Photographs?

Our reasoning for making photographs evolves over time. What begins with an innocent, and sometime ignorant, exploration into the world around us can change. In this video, I talk about my own journey through photography and how it serves me now after over a decade of making photographs.
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[@jeremybassetti]

"When I transitioned from making pictures that were very concrete in nature to pictures that ask more questions and have more mystery and left more for the imagination, that's when I started to ... find a new joy in making pictures." YES

[@AaronHardinPhoto]

🙌🙌🙌

[@ordinary.american.beauty]

How interesting that you went from moviemaking to photography!! It seems something that would be rare but I also get it because you didn’t want to tell your stories but the stories other people lived! To ask questions of the world rather than explain to people what you “know.” Awesome!

[@AaronHardinPhoto]

Thanks! I'm sure I'll get back to making movies at some point. But the photograph is just too captivating for me.

[@tsvetomilsemkov2527]

Thank you, Aaron for this video and for sharing your thoughts! I strongly resonate with this, i find myself gradually exploring more and more mediums on top of photography. The journey of personal exploration should not be bound. I will always have my camera with me and explore myself through images, but combining and layering that with other mediums seems like a whole new beautiful world out there

[@AaronHardinPhoto]

Yes!

[@seb_steimel]

Thanks for this video, Aaron! I also have a background in filmmaking but I didn't work in Press Photography, I worked on documentary films but I can relate to so many things you're saying. It took me many years but since 3-4 years I finally came to the point where I am starting to ask questions and leave questions in my images. Since then I have produced much less work but it's so much more meaningful to me

[@AaronHardinPhoto]

I find that it's better to make less work that is meaningful than to just constantly churning things out. Glad to have a kindred spirit!

[@jordhon]

This could be a TED talk haha, loved it

[@AaronHardinPhoto]

It sometimes feels that way when I'm recording these 😂

[@adriengrolee3111]

Everytime I go ask someone to take their picture I try to find a why... I never really get one and People don´t care about it anyway.

[@AaronHardinPhoto]

Sometimes asking the question is the best part.