>>3795274I feel you. In my first reply I was trying to sound like I know what the fuck I am doing but I don't. I am also stuck in this situation.
The fundamental problem of being sick of seeing the bullshit repetition is existential much more than an artistic one. Boredom is a threat to the tranquility of inner self. Just to escape boredom people travel hundred of miles to capture grandiose landscape or go to conflict zones despite knowing that they could lose their lives.
So you have two options.
1. Be a nomad, traveller, a hitchhiker, hobo etc. Like Buddha said real freedom is abandoning houses. Be like Bresson, Raimbaud.
2. Accept what is around you and remember nothing will ever be enough. Be like Pessoa, Dickinson, Saul Leiter. Here's a brilliant quote if you want to know what kind of mind set I am talking about
>“What can China give me that my soul hasn’t already given me? And if my soul can’t give it to me, how will China give it to me? For it’s with my soul that I’ll see China, if I ever see it. I could go and seek riches in the Orient, but not the riches of the soul, because I am my soul’s riches, and I am where I am, with or without the Orient.”-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Now for photography. Every photographers say that they take a lot of shit photographs so every once in a while they get a good photo. So you should take more shit photos even if this feels forced. Another things is we spend way too much time from photos but not with photos. Just taking photo with out reflecting on them is really stupid and no artist improves that way. Like that anon in the screen shot said "learn to strip thing down." By this way you will precisely understand what you're interested in and why you are interested in that subject. Once when you recognise some common elements that run in your work only after this you can move in the precise direction. Last thing is that photography is a walker's medium. Just take random walks without any goal.
