Show and tell your next best things

The thought of photographing what I like to look at and what I would like to see has been haunting me for the past few months. And trust me, there is a big difference between what you like to look at and what you point your camera at. Imagine Nachtwey and Mapplethorpe sharing a gallery. While the former is showing us horrors of war and things that he would like never to look at again the latter (also the gay one) is showing us naked men. You be the judge of whom is the honest photographer between those two keeping human nature in mind. It’s about as different as letting loose an overzealous rabid dog in a kindergarten. Of course some people may not take you seriously if you’re straying from the beaten path. However, back in the day when I spent my nights developing film that I shot that day nobody I knew was into photography, and Flickr awaited invention. That got me thinking. We’re all just showing our next best things.