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

Exaggeration kills and kills everything. What happened with the internet is that while we suddenly all had an easy way to communicate and an easy way to make our photos known, we reached the point of exaggeration, as with every medium related to digital technology, since ease leads to verbosity and exaggeration, resulting in us talking today about billions of photos being uploaded to the internet daily. So my first observation is that we must indeed use the internet for spreading both photography and our personal work, but with the respect we have for any other use of photography. All I ask from photographers is what they do to showcase their photographs in an exhibition, group or solo, what they do to publish their photographs in a magazine, in a book, i.e., the same respect, the same attention to selection, the same attention to presentation, should be maintained even when it comes to the internet. I cannot understand why for an exhibition that will be seen by few people the photographer gives so much attention and care, and for a post on the internet that will be seen by incomparably more people shows such carelessness. The second point is that photography, at least the one we all deal with, is not based on one photograph, but on a portfolio, a proposal, a series, a positioning of the photographer towards Photography in general, the history of photography, and the entirety of their work. Therefore, the continuous posting of individual images I do not think helps photography. We cannot talk about a good photograph. We must talk about a good photographer. Hence, I would say, of course photographers should have a website, of course they should show their work, of course they should post their work, but not samples of their work or attempts at their work. No artist posts attempts. The attempts are seen by the artist themselves and their few advisors. Post complete work. Post work that supports it. Post work that will be seen by others with seriousness and that the photographer themselves will fear exposing to the eyes of others. Therefore, the internet yes, but with greater seriousness.