Empathy
Understanding what others are feeling because you have experienced it yourself or can put yourself in their shoes.
Sympathy
Acknowledging another person's emotional hardships and providing comfort and assurance.
I think that by posting the very definitions of both empathy and sympathy, I am showing further meaning into my project and my beliefs. I really do empathise for the metalworkers when I shoot at the forge, through conversations with them over the last few weeks it has become apparent just how passionate they are about this lifestyle. This post is also relevant to link with the work of August Sander, who's emotional connection to some of his subjects made him to one of the great portrait photographers of his time.
Empathy is a reoccurring theme throughout this video and is one of the main reasons for me coming up with this idea.
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