Pulse, Alin Barbir

(Inhale)

Fuck you because you think you’re a famous photographer! Fuck your depth of field!
Fuck your focus!
Fuck your sharpness!
Fuck your exposure settings!
Fuck your visual weight because you don’t have one anyway! Fuck your workshops!
Fuck your photo tours!
Fuck your focal length!
Fuck your sensor size!
Fuck yourself-taught photographer skills!
Fuck your perspective!
Fuck your likes and views!
Fuck your models!
Fuck the knowledge you think you have about photography! Fuck your shutter speed!
Fuck your aperture!
Fuck your followers!
Fuck your composition rules!
Fuck your artistic statement!
Fuck your latest model camera!
Fuck your awards!
Fuck you because you don’t know who Jean Loup Sieff was! Fuck you because you don’t know who Nobuyoshi Araki is!

Fuck you because you don’t know who
Helmut Newton, André Kertész, Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Man Ray, Robert Doisneau, Vivian Maier, Irving Penn, Francesca Woodman, Imogen Cunningham, Bill Brandt, Eugène Atget, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Masahisa Fukase, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Saul Leiter were!

Fuck you because you don’t know who
Elliott Erwitt, Sebastião Salgado, Sally Mann, Antoine d’Agata, Daidō Moriyama, Miho Kajioka, Masao Yamamoto, Viviane Sassen, Albert Watson, Anton Corbijn, Gregory Crewdson, Crina Prida are!

Fuck you, because! Fuck your photography! Fuck photography! Fuck!

(Exhale) Photography!

10.22.2020