ERIC KIM

ERIC KIM

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  • Don’t Go to Photography School

    Do not go to photography school. Serious waste of time and money. Better to just learn for yourself via trial and error, by experimenting by yourself, watching YouTube videos, and reading websites blogs and forums than to waste serious $$$ (and time) to go to photo school.

    I used to think:

    If you get a full ride, or you can go to photography school for free… it is a good idea.

    Now I take that back. Even if your photography education was fully-paid for and free … photography school is bad because:

    1. Waste of your time (4 years you can rather do something more interesting … Industrial Design major at RISD seems like a ‘real’ major you can actually learn true technical skills like 3D, etc).
    2. Your photos become generic. If you go to photo school, what will happen to you? You will become indoctrinated with the boring type of photo — apathetic, bored, and dis-interested photos of miserable people looking miserable.

      3. https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/09/26/dont-go-to-photography-school/

      7 min
    4. DON’T BUY IT, BUILD IT!

      We all like great designed things. Fancy watches, sports cars, bags, clothing, cameras, gadgets, tools, etc.

      But this is the problem with modern day capitalism-consumerism:

      We think we are artists when we select our own aesthetic tastes by going online or to the mall, and buying things which we think represents us as people, artists, and individuals.

      This ain’t good. Why? It limits you. This means your artistry or artistic self expression is limited by the things which already exist out there. But if you truly want to be a creator, innovator, or to push the needle forward … you gotta build it.

      MORE: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/09/26/dont-buy-it-build-it-2/

      7 min

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    Podcast on photography, philosophy, and entrepreneurship.