learn more about photography

is Sunday.

Today I renewed my batteries and I’ll be taking photos all day long tomorrow in the campus!

Yay!

;)

I registered for the photography courses of AFSAD (Photography Artists’ Association of Ankara) as I told you at my previous entry about this goal.

I’m starting them right after I get back to Ankara.

I’m excited that I’ll be with professionals in a real photography atmosphere!

I’m sure that there will be too many to learn.

Hope that I’m on the right path to improve my photography skills in a professional way.

I decided that I want to take offical photography courses from AFSAD (Photography Artists’ Association of Ankara) when I return back to Ankara.

^{We’ll see if I may be able to arrange my time and money for that.}

I wanna be a good photographer so badly! But it will probably never happen since I’ve been suffering from the disorder called chronic dissatisfaction.

It is so pointless. If I know that I’m never gonna feel myself competent and good about my photography, what all these effort for?

I can’t understand myself at all.

I’ve spent a few hours reading about some important classic photographers such as Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams and Paul Strand and I checked many of their works. I must have seen at least a few hundreds of photographs.

I’m also attracted by a few Magnum Photographers and I currently find Bruno Barbey’s works so veeery remarkable.

So much to read and learn!

I decided that I’m gonna learn more about photography in its historic dimension. If I’m involved in this subject, I should know more about its masters, masterpieces and critics in order to have a better perspective of photography which I really give a shit.

There are already tones of books about photography that I read or checked out this year. Some of those books I remember are:

• Magnum Stories
• Ara Güler – Retrospektif
• Jerry Uelsmann – Other Realities
• Anna Tomczak – Sanctuary
• Faruk Akbaş – Insan Anadolu
• Martin Parr – Small World
• Icons of Photography – The 19th century
• Czech Vision – Avant Garde Photography in Czechoslovakia
• National Geographic – The wildlife photographs
• Susan Sontag – On Photography
• Faruk Akbaş – Fotoğrafta Kompozisyon

I’m hoping to read more and more, and also to have more ideas about what has been going on in the field of photography.

^{P.S: Photo is by Paul Strand, 1916.}