{"id":7976,"date":"2015-08-27T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2024-06-04T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:17:05","slug":"artistic-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/artistic-identity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m having an artistic identity crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Urban<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There’s a difference between my photos B.B. (before blog) and A.B. (after blog). A typical Jacintha photo before I started blogging was black & white, lots of contrast, and definitely more ‘raw’ than pretty. I started doing a bit of urban exploring before I moved to London and thought that was the coolest thing ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jemaa-el-Fna,<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I started Urban Pixxels. Where the purpose of the photo is to tell a story, not to show my artistic photography skills. I still want them to be interesting, but I’m also definitely going for pretty. I love doing lifestyle photography. But I love my ‘old’ photo style too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then you have Instagram<\/a>. Where a bright photo of a pink door or a vintage car does ten times better (in terms of likes) than a more ‘artsy’ photo. Black & white photos don’t do well, nor do darker, moody pictures (even when the light is a-mazing). But does that mean I should stop taking them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Marrakech<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marrakech<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ask any professional blogger and they’ll tell you that you should treat your blog as a brand. And only do things that fit your brand. From a marketing point of view I completely agree. But personally, I’m not so sure I like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, photography has been my creative outlet – long before I started Urban Pixxels or Instagram. The last thing I want is having to self-censor myself just because other people might not like it as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Urban<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Urban<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But I’m already doing it! I consider removing a photo from Instagram when it doesn’t do well (I didn’t) and I post a picture of a pretty door next to a darker photo just to ‘balance’ my feed. And some of my favorite photos never make it onto Urban Pixxels, just because they don’t fit in with the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do about my little identity crisis. I love where Urban Pixxels is going and the opportunities it brings (my first photo in Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler this month!), so I’ll definitely keep doing what I’m doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vietnam<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But I also want to find a way to do other sorts of photography. And not care as much about the number of likes if I want to post a non-typical Urban Pixxels photo on Instagram. Whose account is it anyway?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about you? Do you ever feel you’re self-censoring yourself on your blog or social media?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo of me by Sandra Jaipal<\/a>.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a difference between my photos B.B. (before blog) and A.B. (after blog). A typical Jacintha photo before I started blogging was black & white, lots of contrast, and definitely more ‘raw’ than pretty. I started doing a bit of urban exploring before I moved to London and thought that was the coolest thing ever. Then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}