AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

For this AMP site, I listed my type of art as photography although I personally feel that photography is not art. To me art is something that comes from the soul and is expressed in a physical form - it is something unseen which comes from the artist's mind. Photography is more like expressionism - one can only photograph what exists in real life but the perspective that the photographer gives it is his/her own. It's much like playing the piano well - the music is already written on the sheet, but it is up to the pianist to determine how it will sound to others. Honestly, I orignially got into photography because I loved the sound of the whir and click of a camera in a MISIA song I was listening to. It had a sad tone to it which told me, "This moment has been captured, although it will never come back." Many years, many cameras, many lenses and many rolls of film later, I was testing out my latest addition to my camera collection, the Nikon F4S and heard the whir and click of this automatic camera and quietly remembered all the moments and people in my life that will never come back.