Creativity is a relentless fascination with the question, ‘what if?’ One of those ‘what ifs’ is invariably, ‘What if I’m not creative enough?’ And, perhaps more importantly, what can you do if you’re going through a ‘not-creative-enough’ period? Let’s start with a fundamental ‘what?’ What does it mean to be creative?
Adelaide-based Gee Greenslade, AIPP Australian Illustrative Photographer of the Year (2015, 2016), says that being creative is “this deep need to stay childlike in how I see the world and react to it. It's about staying curious – if I see a thing, I want to try, I try it without question.”
Meanwhile, landscape photographer, Mel Sinclair says, “It’s like a friend that never left; a sidekick that has stuck with me through thick and thin in my life…always…