I am thinking about applying to grants in photography but I don't know much about English or how to tell a "personal story". What is my biography? That I have shitposted on 4chan for 10 years after dropping out of university while doing photography on the side? The artist statements and biographies that I read are filled with buzzwords like communities, diversity, capitalism, indigenous, climate change, neo-liberalism and other virtue signalling bullshite. It really disgusts me. Nowhere they mention the fucking form or aesthetics. It's all just globohomo buzzwords and terms. Those statements read like a protest slogans rather than something an artist would say. They are plagued with utility. They don't think of art as end-in-itself. But as means to an end and most of the time it's just some political bullshit that they're seething about. Most of them sound like activists turned "photographers". How can I write a short biography and statements which are actually human and convey artistic perspective? How do you write your biographies and artist statements?
There's a grand committee that awards the grants. Write what they want to read, and change your name to Laqueefa.
>>4393971By the time you’re able to judge a photo show, and then a thousand photo shows, and then approve grants for other photogs to do work, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what is interesting to audience's at the time. If you think what makes your work interesting is form and “aesthetics” (whatever the absolute FUCK you think your gen z ass means by that) then you should write your grant proposal, but your mad composition skillz had better be something so fucking amazing that no one’s ever seen before bc otherwise thinking you’re going to vibe invited to show or given a grant on the most basic elementary photo skills without any higher conceptual thought about WHAT you’re shooting and WHY, is some first year student/engineering student who bought a camera/friendless loser tier jackassery.
>>4393977Let them know your photos will benefit marginalized at-risk BIPOC youth from areas historically impacted by redlining.
>>4394251>If you think what makes your work interesting is form and “aesthetics”Yes, I know. But people who think that only "narrative" can carry photos disgust me. Photojournalists with their minimally processed sterile jpegs make me want to puke. There must be a balance between content and form. >any higher conceptual thought about WHAT you’re shooting and WHY,Thing is all of those people act that taking snapshits is going to "save" whatever the fuck they're seething about. I don't have this much lack of world understanding and ego to believe in such horrible nonsense. Art is a leisure activity and fiction. It reference nothing but itself. My main reasons for doing something are as simple as conveying a particular emotion that I have felt. I don't care about "social issues". I don't have any moral lessons to teach or activist bullshit to perform. If I am being honest my art can only entertain and that must be first and foremost goal of art. Is this okay? Now the problem is that most grants are for "social issues" so where is the space for artists like me?
>>4394260your formal choices are a given, obvious as the nose on your face. They are not interesting to discuss bc everything is simply a choice, the same choices every fucking photog makes with every shot. You want a judge to be impressed bc you show up with everything along rule of thirds lines? Or you show up with no thirds lines, and a bunch of tangents on edges and trees growing out of heads and shit jammed in the corner of the frame? Nobody needs to talk about it, everyone can see those are the choices you made, whether they comply with photo 101 rules or they spite them, they are what you chose, everyone can see it, there’s no mystery there. It’s all been done & seen 10 million times before to greater & lesser effect, it’s just the form you chose. Not interesting. Even saying “it needs to be balanced” IS that choice. Everyone will see your “balanced” form.>All those people think they’re going to save the worldYou have some massive fucking ego to think you know what everybody is thinking, and that they’re all as delusional, foolish as stupid as you imagine them to be. People do what they do for a million fucking reasons, or bc it just fits the description of the show or client. Not that it’s any of your fucking business to approve of. You shit out your mouth here like a self appointed judge of everyone else, and with no respect for anyone, and in your mind it’s everyone else that’s the problem. Grow up, then try again.
>>4394362There nothing new under the sun.Everything is has already been said before. The only thing that matters in art is HOW YOU SAY IT, period. If there's nothing to your form then you're not an artist, just a soulless journalist. There is a way how an artist deals with a subject. I know a Solomon D. Butcher's photograph when I see it, nobody has to tell it to me. This is what I mean by form. Now this isn't true AT ALL for sterile and political bullshit which plagues all of photojournalism. Of course I am egoistic about my artistic opinions. We artists play God after all. What I am saying is that most grants are aimed at """social issues""" and I get the impression that photography isn't "serious enough" for them so they have to put on the big boy pants and pretend that what they're doing is primary to the survival of the """community""" they're documenting. They're filled with activist larpers NOT artists. >with no respect for anyoneYou don't know me. I have been shat on countless times. I don't even know where is the gate of "art market". I feel inadequate, disposable and left out. This is why I am salty. >Grow up, then try again.What does this even mean?
>>4393971>no photosis????
>>4394748Don't want to associate myself with this place considering how retarded whole art market is. If I fail to get grants, I'll dump my shit here which will be forgotten after getting 4 replies from anons talking shit about my snapshits.
>>4394750>make retarded thread about how you're totally getting a scholarship for the arts>doesn't post any of his photos>doesn't even say where he's from so we can give country specific adviceWorthless thread
>>4394751>>make retarded thread about how you're totally getting a scholarship for the artsWrong, I have made this thread for advice. Read with open eyes. >>doesn't post any of his photosYeah because I don't want to be "cancelled" for associating with the deepweb mongolian dungeon like 4chan. >>doesn't even say where he's from so we can give country specific adviceI am aiming for international gibs
>>4394753Didn't read, where's your photos?How are you expected to be given a grant with no photos?
>>4394754Then fuck off retard. Thanks for bumping the thread.
>>4394755>still no photosAgain, how are you expected to get a grant with no photos?
>>4394756I have already told you two times why I am not posting photos but you're not listening.
>>4394757>still no photosI've found why you aren't getting a grant, it's not because of your retarded underage pol delusions
>>4394759>>I've found why you aren't getting a grant,I haven't sent any applications yet. >retarded underage pol delusionsI am not a poltard. But woke thing is very real. Okay, so can we ignore that shit and discuss the application process?
>>4394761>STILL no photosOK step one of the process, post some photosBecause if your photos are generic snapshits you aren't getting anywhere
>>4394763You DON'T care about my concern and just want to yell "NO PHOTOS". There's no point in conversation with (You).
>>4394764Once you post some fucking photos we can get somewhereHow are we supposed to help you write about your grant when we don't even know what kind of photos you take? This kind of idiocy is why you aren't in education lmao
>>4394765I know you're salty because of my "retarded underage pol delusions". This conversation was over before it began.
>>4394766Just post your photosWhy is this so difficult for someone both on /p/ and apparently wanting a grant for photography?
>>4394767>Just post your photosSo then you and your friends could cancel me for being associated with the deepweb mongolian dungeon called 4chan? You're a manipulating rat. Thanks for proving my point.
>>4394769What the fuck are you talking about? Just post your photos then we can get somewhere in this insane thread
>>4394770I am done with you bro. Thanks for bumping the thread.
Hey guys I'm looking to get a grant for photographyNo I won't show you my photos, what's the point of that
Use ChatGPT
>>4394759>underage pol delusionsYou think anyone sane wants to reveal themselves to an ineffectual loser who speaks like this? Especially with your level of desperation? You're as unhinged as the political ideologues that OP described.
>>4394779Cool cool OP, your photos?
>>4394780Not OP. No one's gonna give you what you want until you're functional enough to better disguise your illnesses, okay?Have a Merry Christmas. Will it be spent with family?
>>4394783The illness of asking for your photos when YOU made a thread on the photography board asking for advice about a PHOTOGRAPHY grant?
>>4394784Once again, not OP. Your desperation is growing.
>>4394785I just want to see OPs photo, considering he's asking about a grant for it
>>4394786It looks like you drove him off with your unhinged politics. I'll bet this is a running theme in your life.Better luck next time, because it sure as hell won't be skill.
>>4394787>it's political to ask a guy who wants a photography grant to post his photosWhere was I political?
>>4394788Checked.>underage pol delusionsPhrases like this sum up your person perfectly. OOPS.
>>4394789Read OPs post. It's literally schizophrenic delusions
>>4394790He was describing losers like yourself, and you are demonstrating his point well.
>>4394791All I want is to see OPs photos, you know the entire point of a photography board and his grant?Are you so schizophrenic you think I'm on the fucking grant board?
>>4394792Agreed OP post photos or gtfo
