JaTecson

What do you see in your images now, that you didn’t see in your images 5 years ago?

The first thing that comes to mind is authenticity. I’m always wanting to bring out the best and most natural version of my subjects when I shoot them. What I’m envisioning in my head is one thing, but getting someone to do it is a completely different task.  I love that I don’t settle nowadays, and I think my clients appreciate it. I love knowing at the end of the day I did my best. 

It’s pretty crazy to even say 5 years. I feel like every year, there’s been not only a natural progression, but also a rebellion against my work. I feel like it was one of the ways personally for myself to find out which images were truly reflective of the people I was shooting. 

Take for example the idea of a kiss in the picture above. Every time I take a picture of anyone kissing, I would a say a million things are processing in my head. Images I’ve done in the past, something I saw in a book, a movie that I had recently watched, the light, etc.

After I process all that crazy imagery in my imagination, I think that is the main difference with my images after all this time. By the time I press that shutter, I feel like I have something authentic. For me, that is being original. It’s growth. It’s trust.