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I think I just cured myself of “gear aquisistion syndrome” (GAS).

In daily grind,mental anguish by Dr. Leslie Dean Brown / Novembre 25, 2016 / 0 Comments

A strange thing happened to me today. Desire left my body.

A B&H catalogue duly/dutifully (pick whichever word you prefer) arrived in the mail. Even though I never ordered one. I thought I would open in anyway. If only to separate the polyethylene plastic covering from the paper so that I could recycle it properly.

Now I will admit that one of my past times is photography. And about the only money I spend these days is on food, clothes and work stuff…

Nevertheless, I am living in the first world. And first world people are told to buy. To consume. We’re hardwired for it from birth. From before birth even. We’re not even born yet and there are presents waiting for us. As we get older, they make “infant sized” shopping trolleys.That’s how bad it is.

So I obliged and flicked through the thing. All 340 pages.

My scholarship application for Eric Kim street photography workshop

In mental anguish by Dr. Leslie Dean Brown / Agosto 16, 2016 / 0 Comments

Email address *

info@lesliedeanbrown.com

Phone number *

+612 8502-3048

Which workshop are you interested in attending? *

Sydney, Australia – October 8-9th, 2016 – Conquer Your Fears of Shooting the Streets

Please tell us a little bit about what you expect to get out of the workshop *

I have learned not to expect anything, that way I am never disappointed. However, I would like to be more motivated to go out and shoot street photography more frequently than I do now. I have been chronically depressed now for 2 straight years and would also like to gain more optimism about life in general. I would also like to meet new photographers and interact with them. I would also like to have fun, that is the main thing.

How would you take the knowledge you’ve learned from the workshop to better serve your community? *

I have two main long-term goals with my photography. As I get older, I would like use street photography to shine a spotlight on two massive problems that are prevalent in many societies today:

1) MATERIAL WASTE: I previously studied materials science and I believe that there is way too much consumerism in the Western world. Way too much. Mining leads to environmental tradgedies, yet we need the environment in order to survive. So we are eventually going to have to overcome this addiction we have of unsustainable synthetic materials and manufacturing processes, literally for our own survival. Recycling in its current form is still not enough, we need to be able to recycle all the elements on the periodic table, not just a handful of them.

In nature, there is simply no such thing as ‘rubbish’. One organism’s waste is another’s food. There is a girl out there somewhere who only had only accumulated one jar of waste after a whole year. I believe that should be our collective future; our aim should be to create zero waste. I believe that one day in the future, the large rubbish bins we see now today will become obsolete. Perhaps it will take centuries, but that is the way it has to be.