Why We Tinted
As a budding British-Nigerian caught at the edge of the city centre booming with progress, entrepreneurial spirit, and a zest for life, it can be hard to know where you’re going or where you’ve been. A major reason for starting Tinted is to connect the BAME community through photography and film. But it’s also for more selfish reasons. To learn a skill that will help me tell others where I’m going and where I’ve been. Storytelling is a tool to do just this. And storytelling in film, even better.
Stanley Kubrick says something along the lines of ‘Film is just a collection of amazing photos accompanied by a banging soundtrack’. I use this train of thought to justify my interest in photography. it’s a means to an end and one that requires time and precision. So master photography to master film. That’s the aim. After coming to this realisation, I turned to Youtube, Medium, friends and family, and everything single corner I could turn to for a morsel of knowledge. What I noticed was a lack of resources properly allocated to supporting the growth of amateur photographers. Photography can be a lonely skill. The time spent waiting for the right composition. The relationship you build with your editing setup. But it can also be cooperative. it’s role is to document human history. That act in of itself is something done today to help tomorrow. It’s people cooperating now to help later. For something so cooperative there's very little time and effort spent helping the growth and development of this skill.
So that’s where it all started. A desire to develop a skill. A discovery that envelops the will — namely, the evergreen of photography styles discouraging participation for fear of confusion or embarrassment. A lot of people zone into one style and master that style. Heck, in some cases your closed network of photographers all appeal to the same style. This approach is limiting. It sets a standard as the go-to then replicates. I want Tinted to represent the underrepresented and to appreciate all styles. This blog therefore will help any reader journey into different photography styles. I will document what I learn about each style and share my findings here. Through the Tinted lens, we’ll learn and grow together.
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