WEEK COLLECTION 37

“All the art of living
Lies in a fine mingling
Of letting go and
And holding on.”

Havelock Ellis

Craziness?

“In life you need either inspiration or desperation” – Tony Robbins

 

Experiment

“The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of ‘how to do’. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.” – László Moholy-Nagy

Self-doubt

Lack of confidence in oneself and one’s abilities, like motives, personality, thought, etc.

his later years were plagued by self-doubt

uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision, vacillation, doubt

Self-doubt might not only be harsh for your creativity, it more so strongly affects your ability to life freely and enjoy things. It is however the state I’m in, beyond melancholy.

Photograph by Wouter Brandsma

Anxiety

A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.

he felt a surge of anxiety

worry, concern, apprehension, apprehensiveness, consternation, uneasiness, unease, fearfulness, fear, disquiet, disquietude, perturbation, fretfulness, agitation, angst, nervousness, nerves, edginess, tension, tenseness, stress, misgiving, trepidation, foreboding, suspense

Don’t misinterpreted this as photography anxiety, but see as a deep personal anxiety. I try to use photography to cope with it. Photography allows me to turn to the inside out.

Photograph by Wouter Brandsma