What You Project

It took me a long time to call myself a photographer. I felt I was not deserving, inadequate. Looking back, I see that I was what I wanted to be before I ever realized it. I felt I didn’t deserve to call myself an artist because I wasn’t accomplished enough. I only “shot photos for fun.” I wasn’t making money from it. I couldn’t dare call myself a photographer. Art doesn’t have to be born from these feelings, but mine was. Photography, before I realized it, is how I’ve overcome insecurity. It’s how I’ve found a direction in my own life.