It’s not about the subject

It’s not about the subject

Here’s another secret: in photographic art, it’s never about the subject.

It’s always about the underlying compositional structure. Subjects that may be there are chosen because they support or create a structure, not the other way around.

What a subject does in real life is irrelevant. In a good photo, subjects are chosen to provide the shapes or colors we want to lay down the basic design of an image.

This is a statement from a web article written by Ken Rockwell, a reasonably famous photographer from USA. There is some truth in the statement. Let’s have this point as a source for discussion here. I would like to hear your views on this statement. Try to digest his statement with what you’ve heard and understood from the 3 meetings we had and what you have learnt so far from the facilitators. There is no right or wrong answers. This is not a test. Just sharing…