The book Focus op Fotografie: Van maken tot raken by Diana Bokje is about your development as a photographer. Who are you as a photographer, what are your values and how do they influence your photographic themes? If anything were possible, who would you be?
No journey is free of obstacles. This book teaches you how to overcome those obstacles and which resources can help you.
The technical aspects of photography are becoming increasingly accessible and easier to master. A command of technique is a sound foundation, but will it inspire your audience? You want to move people with compelling photography that has substance. Photographs that touch people begin with an appealing idea. Add your own style and build it into an absorbing project. That is how you can distinguish yourself as a photographer.
Yet this book is more than a self-help book for photographers. A step-by-step plan runs through it as a common thread: a practical guide that takes you from your dream to the concrete execution of a photography project.
After the opening chapters help you discover your motivations and purpose in photography, the book turns to personal style and creativity. How can you stimulate your creativity? It presents various methods for generating, selecting and enriching ideas, enabling you to create the strongest and most independent possible plan for your project.
Every photography project or beautiful series begins with its maker’s dream. Author, photographer and photography teacher Diana Bokje helps you recognize that dream within yourself and develop it into an engaging photo series or presentation.
A step-by-step plan helps you answer the following questions: how do you conceive an idea, enrich it, turn it into a compelling project, capture it in your own signature style, make each photograph speak more powerfully, deal with doubts, persevere and bring a project to completion?
As a photography coach, Diana Bokje gives photographers the tools and inspiration to develop their photographic vision, creativity and expressive power so they can touch others with their photographs. “Photography is in my blood. I grew up in a family of photographers and received my first camera on my fourth birthday,” she says. “What continues to fascinate me about photography is the extraordinary diversity of images: from beautiful aesthetic images to raw, provocative photographs and sometimes elusive representations of reality. My own photography often has a personal background—an inner struggle, a special event or an emotion that I explore through photography. Universal questions that touch the viewer and make them see photography differently.”
Focus op Fotografie: Van maken tot raken — Diana Bokje
Pages: 192
Price at original publication: € 34,99
Publisher: VanDuuren Media
Or order the 2nd edition of Van maken tot raken — Diana Bokje.
Language: Dutch. This article refers to the Dutch-language edition.
