A Study of Photography and the Moment that’s Already Gone

Emy
4 min read6 days ago

(No selfies allowed)

Hey, I’m not judging. I take selfies, always. Good ones. Shit ones. Filtered ones. Who cares? But most of them — I’m not in a thought process when taking them. It’s not a creative art flow in my brain. It’s a vanity analysis of how hot can I look? (What can I say, I’m a millennial who grew up on tabloid magazines, diet fads and slim fast, and MTV.)

But I recently looked at some old photos a few friends and real talented artists took of me over the years and thought… what’s going through…

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Emy

Writing poems since before I knew what poetry meant. Maybe, that's why I never kept a single one. Not until my heart broke open did I start keeping my words.