I like to think of my photography as my Rough Theater, most of the time when I take photos seriously, on trips, I don't take photos for anyone other than myself. They can be crappy blurry photos that have absolutely zero artistic value, yet they mean something to me. I don't care how others think about them because they aren't for them. Yet at the same time, I'm able to capture photos that have both artistic value and personal meaning to them. Some can be artistic, some can be dark photos of reality, some can be photos of stars and infinity, and some can be simple objects isolated from the world.
Rough theater doesn't care on the widespread appeal of the product at hand, they take whatever it can get and makes something out of it. I try to do that with the photos I take, I make the most out of the situation I'm in. Sometimes, I'll have to snap a couple of quick photos out of a bus going through a bumpy patch on the mountain roads of Belize, other times I'll quickly snag a photo holding my breath diving down 35 feet. I take what I can get and make the most out of it, that is my rough theater. I do what I can and not try to make it overtly artistic making the viewer think long and hard, I focus on myself and if other people can find deeper meaning from it good on them but that wasn't the intention.
