Photography as a healing art
- Carmen Klammer
- Sep 4, 2016
- 1 min read
Photography as a Healing Art
"The real thing about photography is that it brings you home to yourself, connects you to what fulfills your deepest longings. Images can be mirrors for our deepest truths, even in our simple snapshots."
"Photography heals 3 times. The first time is when I am in search of the image, present only to that which is, focused on the moment. By virtue of this absorption in the now, I am released from the often painful grip of past and future. The second healing belongs to the person being photographed, the honored recipient of pure attention, healed by an artist's loving gaze. The third healing occurs when we view a photograph as an outside observer and are moved by its power or beauty. The chance to see the world through another's lens, to be transported to another time, another place, another reality, can heal and transform our own."
The people, objects, and landscapes we are drawn to photograph have power to center us in the present, soothe the injured spirit, and lead us to our deepest truths."
(Jan Phillips, God is at eye level, Photography as a Healing Art)