My personal and creative rule regarding naming my photographs is to give them a name for everything that is out of the vision of the image.
Initially, I will state that exceptions break this rule, but these exceptions confirm the leading practice. I often write that I want to present the mundane reality surrounding me and 99% of others worldwide. Still, it does not mean I constantly wish to refer to facts. People’s imagination plays a crucial role in terms of interpreting my pictures. I believe that a wrong interpretation does not exist. I’ve noticed many people see various, often different, things in my photographs. Most of them like it, and some of them do not.
Personally, I love ambiguities in my images.
I sometimes see various things on them. I believe what I see frequently depends on my mood. That’s why I usually do not have problems naming photographs with totally different descriptions of what I actually see. I wrote this text on the 3rd of October, 2022. It was a day when I published on Artfinder one picture of the hole in the asphalt. When I wanted to name it, I did not ask myself what the picture presented. I asked myself what I saw. Then, I realized that I saw the burned body, and, et voila, I named this photograph “Burned Body.”
Simple? Perhaps.
I think I could provide many more examples of similar thinking. Still, I do not want to encourage you, my Dear Friend, to do the same. I want to encourage you to do as you want and feel. We are in the art world where each rule can be broken or where there can be no rules. Regarding naming my works of art, I prefer to focus on my feelings, not necessarily on physical objects I see in front of my eyes.
