COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ARTISTRY WITHIN

While we operate in three categories that are often broad and sweeping between industries, Art, Design and Photography have become the static cornerstones of discernible creativity. Whether with a brush, a computer program or a proper lens, composition and the aesthetic elements of a scene are key to evoking the right feelings.

As we view the images above, we encourage the audience to extract a type of feeling about images so clean and sharp and well composed. Within professional photography, we like to emphasize the importance of feeling within a composition. In informing and educating other about composition, the artistry—as we see it—is in imagining your subject or target scene on canvas or framed mounted upon a wall. It doesn’t always take planning or forethought but more an understand of the scene to be translated on a flat medium.

Our hope is to further encourage and inspire a resurgence of artistry within photography that is distinct for African and Ethnic American communities leaning away from the commercialization of human bodies to a study and revelation of beauty in other aspects of life. Yes, reality is essential to communicate within these communities but positivity and positive messages should not be costing our collective dignities and respect.

Hopefully, this post helps to inform and inspire creatives of Color and Ethnicity to not get caught up on the popular trends but to realize the great potential of just shooting clean and well-organized scenes. Take these images and build upon the concepts and ideas to create your own potential masterpieces of the camera and lens.

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ARTISTIC APPRECIATION - THE FEED - LIAM IAN

© 2022 William B. Philpot (Liam Ian) of LIAM IAN LLC

INSPIRED - PHOTOGRAPHY

It was stuff like this that was fueling my passion for photography. The art and the craft as was a major component of what was then hip-hop, music and a type of urban culture. Back in the day when Kanye West was just getting started, there just seemed to be this movement of creativity that would and could personify the urban Black experience.

While the music did something to and for me, it was the elements of creativity established around and out of being such a force for youth culture that really made an impression. Photography was a craft that I wanted to know. After reading and viewing—viewing and reading magazines such as The Source, VIBE and Black Enterprise, I just knew that attending The Art Institute of Washington was going to be the best thing for establishing and building a career in Photography.

I grew up in and out of the culture that produced some of the most impactful kinds of cultural content that would forever leave lasting impressions. Now that I’ve gotten to a place where I can indulge my passions, my work—my Art, Design and Photography—stands still influenced by this era—this genre that will never die.

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THE FEED - LIAM IAN

© 2022 William B. Philpot (Liam Ian) of LIAM IAN LLC