The twenty-sixth video from the series "Short Monologues by Plato Rivellis on Photography and Art".

No one denies the great importance and value of the internet in our lives, and of course, no one can ignore how well a computer screen, and obviously the internet, fits with the concept of photography. Thus, it is not unreasonable that photography has flooded the internet. Concurrently, alongside internet photography, the photography of applied forms, such as journalism and advertising primarily, has inundated the space of media, magazines, and televisions, gradually turning photography into a fashion. And I say it turned into fashion because whatever becomes fashionable uses the most superficial and obvious elements to spread and obviously does not honor the substantial, the difficult, the more interesting elements of any medium. So, when asked if I am happy that photography is fashionable, I naturally say no. I would like photography to be respected by much more people, understood by more people, but definitely not fashionable, because the common denominator of fashion is the absence of any personality. Fashion means—even in clothing—a homogenization, an imitation, and a repetition. Therefore, we want the spread of photography, we want education about photography, but I do not think that anyone who loves photography is happy if it becomes a fashion. Quite often, the thoughtful person tends to react—sometimes mistakenly—by definition against anything that becomes fashionable. Therefore, I would say to ignore the fashion of photography and to bring it back to the dimension of an education aimed at spreading it to more people who will take it seriously.