Intuitive photography - just do it

There’s nothing like meeting people with fresh ideas, ambition, youth - all those things that drift easily down river.

So, off I go to an Intuitive Portrait Workshop for a few hours last Saturday. This is held in the basement of the Photobook Cafe in London. The cafe has many photobooks to browse with a flat white, and it is a focus for new photography.

Whether any of the day will sink in, I don’t know. I think so. I certainly like the idea of not overthinking. Just responding. Natural light. Found objects. Embrace imperfections.

Our tutor is photographer Viviana Almas. She is very talented and has just graduated from Falmouth University in Cornwall. She’s earning a reputation for a strong body of original work. Her images makes me think about what photographs by JG Ballard might look like, if he ever took photographs.

Viviana is also a sculptor and works with experimental and performance-based art, and moving film, which makes the way she sees photography… different.

These are a few of my humble images from the day.

In the end, most of photography’s mysteries tie together, whether it’s intuitive, or the decisive moment, or gesture, or the instinct of a news photographer. It’s all about the journey.

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