Final Thoughts

Helik van Rynswoud, 2020.

This is the final post of the CRJ. The MA was a 2 year long journey that on 2018 I decided to take. It hasn’t been easy all the times, but it has been worth it. The way I see my practice has changed immensely.

I realised this when starting to update my website yesterday, as it was completely abandoned for a while. I can see now what is wrong, what to remove, the sequencing was wrong. I have practiced and progressed during the last year on sequencing the photos. Before, I could not do it, I selected the wrong images and got easily distracted along the way.

Without the MA I would not have progressed in such way. The Falmouth Symposium portfolio reviews were of great help. I have used the techniques learned and, even though I believe that I still need to progress on both technique, editing and sequencing, I have now the foundations to do so.

I have also become more confident when talking about my practice. When I joined the course, I did not know where to start, since I tried so many things before, I could not describe what my work was about. Now I have the foundations and improved confidence in my photographic and communication skills. The CRJ was a great tool to annotate my progress, and to register my learning curve. The future is unknown, but now I know my voice and where to head, and what to avoid.

To sum up, the course helped me to be better, to know better and to produce better. Also, I am still ambitious about photography, and I still believe that it is a very important tool in the current world that we live in, a world that is going through a crisis and it will continue to do so for a while. We all need art to survive these moments, and to express ourselves during this journey called life.

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