Cultivating Originality In Photography

Find what makes you unique in a world full of sameness

“I will not choose what many men desire because I will not jump with common spirits and rank me with the barbarous multitudes.” — William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice.

This video recently made its way onto Vimeo — by juxtaposing photos people take while they travel that all look alike, it points out the odd contrast of our feelings of having unique, interesting experiences with the hard proof that we really aren’t all that unique, after all.

And if that realization feels a bit sad to you, it might be comforting to know that even that video had been made before, under the title of “Vemödalen,” which is a word that actually describes that feeling:

Even the video that shows we aren’t original, isn’t original. Heavy, right?