The second edition of 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? Move from idea to photography project in fifty steps.
The first part of the book focuses on your development as a photographer. No journey is free of obstacles. This book teaches you how to overcome those obstacles and which resources can help you.
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. “I enjoy seeing other people come closer and closer to their true selves and watching their confidence grow. 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. What matters is not what is in the photograph, but how it is shown. When you are truly connected with your subject as a photographer, the viewer can feel it in the photograph. That is why I believe it is important for my photography to remain close to who I am and to my emotions and feelings. I explore an inner struggle, a special event or an emotion through photography—universal questions that also touch the viewer.”
Focus op Fotografie: Van maken tot raken, 2e editie — Diana Bokje
Pages: 200
Price at original publication: € 39,99
Publisher: VanDuuren Media
Language: Dutch. This article refers to the Dutch-language edition.
