Thursday, June 16, 2011

Maybe I'm thinking too much about the future...

(quoted my email to my personal tutor - who is also the course leader of Contemporary Media Practice course)

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I like photography as well. Is it possible to make a living from taking photos and what are the possible career paths for photography? Currently I'm only using Canon G7...I guess I should get myself a (D)SLR and I want to get a film camera too (Nikon is good?) This is another thing for taking media course, it costs (for me...)

One thing about English Language and Creative Writing course, besides the fact that I enjoy writing very much, is that I can teach English somewhere else in the future - that seems to be a stable job for me...(I have my mom to take care of :)

After all though, I know I wouldn't find myself happy if I do anything else but development projects and social works - given my background...We can't want to do everything and I'm sure by now that social work (to directly help disadvantaged people - arts don't reach to these and not all arts they can comprehend...) is my priority in life...

Maybe I'm thinking too much about the future...But it's true...I enjoy taking photos, filming but it's more like a hobby...I keep thinking how can this help the people who live on streets for example...Exhibitions are inside nice galleries - I've thought about it - it seems to me arts are for artists to look at each other...It's nice but it's not my world or it could be but I don't want to be in that world knowing that I want and can do something else in a more direct way to help the poor people out there...And that is through development studies I think...I need to learn more about that in order to work on that...

These are my thoughts about courses.

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2 comments:

  1. Perhaps you should read this: http://abduzeedo.com/becoming-professional-creative

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  2. I have wanted to do Anthropology in the last nearly four years...

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