Unique Style

Soon or later, every passionate photographer is told or hears about the need of developing his/her own style.

The principle is that having your own style should be the evidence that you master photographic skills and that your creativity is leading your work.

The concept of unique style commonly is found in any art from since long time and it is globally recognised as one essential characteristic in assigning the definition of artist.

But it is really so fundamental to develop a unique style?

Let’s start to look at what unique style practically means: a unique style ensures that the creator or author is immediately recognisable simply by looking at his/her work.

Botero, Dali’, Gursky, Parr, just to name a few, have an extremely recognisable and unique style. When looking at their artwork, you have no doubts about who is the author.

Such powerful styles are surely inspiring and influencing other artists, sometimes even too much, to the point of creating involuntarily imitations or limiting others’ creativity.

The importance of artist recognition is relatively low when we focus on the artwork itself, but it dramatically increases when we look at the commercial side of it.

A big part of the value of an artwork is the author behind it and of course the instant recognition of the artist is a major plus which boosts value and trading opportunities.

But when the commercial value is removed, every single piece of artwork of an author can have its style. An artist could have as many style as his/her creativity allows, a total freedom.

Most probably some artist would still develop their own style because that is in their nature but as many others would enjoy the freedom to create every time new style.

I belong to this second group.

My photographs are all different, there is almost nothing connecting them to a common trait.

That’s because I love to use different type of cameras but especially because when photographing I am heavily influenced by the location, the time and by my own mood and feeling.

I am never the same, everything I take a camera in my hand I am different and so my pictures.

For me photography is a pure passion and I do not have any wish of earning anything else than pleasure from it. Therefore, I have the fortune of not be involved in any commercial aspect which ultimately allow me the freedom of changing.

Ultimately my unique style is the “no-style” (and everything in between).