About lepiaf.geo / Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic  

From ShadowLight, A Photographer's Life by Freeman Patterson

A camera always looks both ways. Like all serious photographers, I have to accept and deal with this fact - the reality that my images are as much a documentation and interpretation of myself as of the subject matter I choose.
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Potentially, we can find religious concern (ultimate caring about ultimate things) anywhere. This is because, in our heart of hearts, we all ask the question about the purpose and meaning of existence (especially our own) - and we attempt to answer it even by consciously ignoring the question or denying its importance. This is an issue from which we may consciously hide, but from which we can never escape, because it always remains firmly rooted in our unconscious self, emotionally linked to our instinct for self-preservation. We would rather be than not be.
Photography - both the craft and the art - helps me to be. It allows and enables me to live creatively, which is to honour Creation and my own existence. As I consciously pursue my craft, my concerns, anxieties, fears, loves, hopes and dreams bubble up from my unconscious. In this meeting of the conscious and unconscious, I can acknowledge my wounds and experience healing. Photography is neither a religion nor a panacea, but it provides me with the opportunity of "growing towards wholeness." And that, surely, is what the religious quest is all about.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. -- Dorothea Lange

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his mind is a craftsman; and, a man who works with his hands, his mind and his heart is an artist. --Louis Nizer

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"--George Bernard Shaw

My Etsy shop, where you can order some of my prints.

What I would like to be able to do: look at my favourites, they speak thousands words. Thank you for your visit.


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Called home: Sarajevo (Bosnia) - Beograd (Serbia) - Windsor (Ontario, Canada)

Please note, if you have no photos posted in your stream and no obvious reason (like a blog of your own) why you fave my photos or make me a contact, I will block you. The Flickr life so far has thought me this.