one pic a day (or something like that)

I had a small crisis after finishing university. Even tho I had jobs and all, it was still like half of my life was empty again and I didn’t know how to fill the gap. I also moved to Berlin and struggled with trying to build up another life in a different city because Berlin is not so easy to get in. So I gave myself a task. I wanted to shoot every day of 2024 one picture. Even on the lamest days where I might only sit at home and do computer work or maybe even nothing I had to find myself something.

I thought it’s gonna be easy peasy because I take pictures very often but hey I have to say, it’s pretty tough to find something to shoot every day.

I learned a few things: I don’t like to force myself to shoot when I’m having an emotionally bad day. I learned to take boring pictures which was reeeally tough on me. To give photos a value that aren’t really worthy of something (but who decides that anyways?). To basically learn that even an interesting day doesn’t always bring you interesting pictures and that I don’t want to be daily connected to my camera (it’s like a relationship, it’s just not good to stick to each other 24/7). 

And how often I just lived in the moment and then realized, FUCK i should’ve taken a pic.

So I also changed the rule over the year: from only analog to also digital and then to iPhone pics as well. 

Hahah maybe I got lazy, but the most important thing: I accepted the fact that that’s okay.

Maša Stanić is part of »Guest Room: Christiane Monarchi & Eva Eicker«.

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