#234 THE MEANING IN THE MAKING: WHY DO WE MAKE THINGS? WHY DO WE MAKE PICTURES?
Philosophical YouTuber and photographer Sean Tucker returns to the show, this time to talk about his new book released this Summer; The Meaning in the Making. It's a read which contains personal stories interwoven with philosophical and spiritual practices that inspire and motivate him to remain a, "Maker of things." As Sean suggests, this book isn't just for photographers or filmmakers, but for musicians, painters, writers; anyone who makes anything. We talk about the process of making this book and his most personal journey of 2020/21 whilst completing it.
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Patron of the Day today is Dennis Skyum from Denmark. He’s one of those photographers whose work I look at and wonder, “Hmmm, why didn’t I see it that way, I mean I was in the same place, I just didn’t see what he saw?” Which reminds me to continue to repeat the mantra the late photographer Steve Shipman passed on from his photographic mentor and teacher; “You’re looking but you’re not seeing.” Dennis is a photographer who does this for the love, not for the like, and by that I mean I learned recently that he’d shut down his 100,000 follower Instagram account, because he didn’t want to feed the machine, or feel the pressure that is bestowed upon someone who has built any kind of following. Dennis’s observations are a dance of leading lines and many silhouetted characters, kind of mystery players in his street works and I… love ‘em.
And here’s a question. Is there a piece of camera kit in a cupboard, in one of those camera bags you’ve not looked in for a while or tucked in a drawer; a lens, a flash, a camera – that you just haven’t used lately? For some reason you’re holding on to it, but you don’t know why, or you’d forgotten you even had it. Well, now is the time to turn that old kit into cash. If you are in the US, Europe or the UK and you can spare just a few minutes, because that’s all it takes, go to MPB.com and sell it using the simple process on the front page. You’ll end up with cash, that you can either pocket or of course trade on the site for kit you’d rather have instead.
