The one hundred fourth video of "Short Monologues by Platon Rivellis on Photography and Art" (2nd series, 2017).

With today's brief talk, I close two consecutive years of weekly meetings with you; today is the 104th short video that I call a little monologue, and I have decided to temporarily stop. "Temporarily" always applies in life, especially at ages like mine, and it might even become permanent. Nevertheless, I want to take a breath so as not to continually tire you and to become somewhat desirable again. Nevertheless, small videos of mine that have been made in the recent past will continue to be uploaded, inspired by a series of lessons that will address topics in photography, which I hope will interest you. Today, coincidentally, is Christmas; we did not do it deliberately, but it so happened that this Monday is a holiday we have associated since childhood with joy. So much with joy that when the childhood years pass, we struggle to enjoy the same joy since it was much greater when we were small. Nonetheless, Christmas is connected with something magical. And I have loved it since I was very, very young. And my memory runs to those years. In these 104 little meetings, the small videos, I tried to give many sides of the questions I receive from time to time in the lessons, I obviously repeated myself many times, but the topics are complex enough that repetition does not hurt too much. I hope I helped many of you who watched them to clarify certain issues; I must tell you that while I speak, I seem to have clear views, but that is not true. Over the many years of living, thinking, and engaging in photography, views obviously slowly clarify, but at the same time, they reveal more complex processes that I had not suspected at the beginning, therefore, all that I say are not answers, obviously not directives, they are merely explorations, thoughts, and with this logic, I would like those who listen to me to accept them. Not as a steadfast belief but as a problematic thought on issues that concern us and which are much more serious than they appear the first time we picked up a camera. I have had the joy all these years of being in contact with people who love the same things as me and who are, as it turns out due to age, younger than me. Thus, I first of all find that age does not play a role when you reach very serious issues since we all have the same age in front of life and death when we talk about things that relate to life and death, ages disappear. What remains is the search for spirituality, the enjoyment of this search, and the creation. I am always available to all who want to communicate with me via my email or my phone. I use the internet to connect with you and a broad world, avoiding social media because I do not want communication to become either massive or frivolous, but never hesitate when you have questions to pose them to my email, and possibly your questions may be the reason to make a new series of little monologues. Thank you all for the patience to listen to me for two years, and I promise to return soon. In the meantime, you will see the other videos that I will be uploading and which are anyway on my site.