Ming Thein
Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com.
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Their wordsthe very best position to be in as a photographer is an amateur: a person who engages in the activity for the love of it, without the constraints of shooting to a client's expectation
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Their wordsAnything creative (except perhaps accounting) should come with a sense of liberation and the satisfaction of having made order and beauty out of incoherent parts.
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Their wordsPlanned images are limited by one's means and imagination. Serendipitous ones are unlimited by chance and one's subconscious.
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Their wordsI suppose in a nutshell it is also why the book is almost always better than the movie...
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Their wordsI believe creativity is really two parts: curiosity and the ability to not just ask "what if?", but also use some foresight to imagine the potential outcome.
↗What is creativity?blog.mingthein.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe better a person is at making these cross-disciplinary connections, the more creative they tend to be.
↗What is creativity?blog.mingthein.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordscreativity is never about making something out of nothing: it's always derivative in a way, even if 'more creativity' means a more distant derivation: 1+1=5, instead of 1+1=3.
↗What is creativity?blog.mingthein.com 3rd of 3 in this piece