RE: Ask a photographer #AAP

Your reflection is important and is transversal to other areas of HIVE.

Fortunately, there are people who want a change, an evolution that is healthier for those who create content and for those who support it.

Honestly, I'm not against whales. The whales want to make money because they have invested, they want a return. It doesn't matter how. It's legitimate, even if we don't agree with it.

What we see today is something that is not healthy. That's my opinion. I know a lot of photographers who I could invite to HIVE. I'm not doing it now because they wouldn't understand. They wouldn't like the “injustice” and it's hard to come up with arguments to defend the current state of affairs.

Obviously, I've felt like giving up. But the reasons I have for giving up are exactly the same as those that keep me going.

There's a teaching from my late father that always stays with me: “Don't waste your energy trying to end the bad world. Create your own good world!”.

That's what I'm working on. I don't want to end up with what is. I don't even whine and waste energy thinking about it anymore. I transmute that energy, that anger (to make it clearer), to help build another parallel universe within HIVE.

I want to bring new photographers to HIVE. I want physical photography galleries represented on HIVE to seek out work that is published here. I want photography magazines inside to recruit work that is published on HIVE. I want external photographic organizations joining HIVE to “take” content produced here. I want to see online training paid for with HIVE or HBD.

HIVE needs to open up to the outside world.

In addition to the existing rewards through votes, HIVE photographers deserve recognition outside the ecosystem too.

To that end, I'm building a project to share with someone who I'm sure will help create a parallel world to this one.

I'm keen to emphasize: I don't want to do away with what's there! I want to help build something new!

The decentralization of this blockchain, combined with the tools it has, allows me to dream.

I believe there will be room for all worlds to coexist in the HIVE universe.

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