Episode 27: Today, I sit down with Scotland-based landscape photographer and educator, Alister Benn, to chat about:
- His journey into being a full-time landscape photographer
- What expressive photography means to him
- The idea of possessing creativity through creative living
- The role of emotions in personal expression and creativity
- The relationship between innate creativity and the subconscious mind
- His five figures of engagement: luminosity, contrast, color, geometry, and atmosphere and how they allow us to compose more creatively
- How openness, acceptance, and non-judgment cultivate creativity
- Finding your creative voice through failures, experiments, practice, and play
- How color can blind us somewhat to the strength or weakness of a composition
- And so much more!
LINKS MENTIONED:
Website: https://expressive.photography [Get 15% off any of Alister’s educational offerings on his website using coupon code OUTDOOR15]
Follow Alister Benn on Instagram
Follow the Expressive Photography YouTube Channel
Alister’s Luminosity and Contrast Theory Ebook
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ABOUT BRENDA PETRELLA (host)
Alister Benn
Photographer
Alister Benn is a Scottish landscape photographer, writer, and musician living in the far west of Scotland with his wife Ann Kristin. Together they run Expressive Photography, which is focused on online learning and small workshops.
Alister’s approach to the landscape is on an emotional level, where each line, texture, color, or atmospheric element has an emotional counterpoint in the viewer. For Alister, landscape photography is an experiential art form, layered with perspective and the urge to articulate something of that wonder through skillful presentation.
Over the years he has been awarded first prizes in some of the world’s most renowned competitions including the Memorial Maria Luisa and Px3 (Paris Photography Prize).
