Conceptual Photography: Staging your Ideas

“The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality.”

Ernst Haas

Many photographs aren’t taken, but made. These images are deliberately constructed through a creative process where the conceptualization and intentionality of the project matches the importance of technical knowledge of the photographic medium. At some point, many great photographs require a solid planning process; others happen serendipitously, as a result of the photographer’s ability to…