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Since boredom first coined as a term in Charles Dickens’ novel “Bleak House”, it has been one of the most noted and discussed content of various researches, arguments and artworks.

While psychological approaches analyse the effects of boredom on individual and reflecting it as an element of daily life, philosophy addresses boredom as anxiety that directs questions to existence of human being and as one of the main elements for apathy that leads the perceptions on nothingness and worthlessness.

This text wishes to analyse boredom as a modern phenomenon that has a cultural dimension and study it through different researches of science and philosophy including boredom as a source of creativity.

Along with this study the aim is to identify the role of boredom in daily life thorough examples and references of these two fields and finding a consistent relation between boredom and creativity. As a photographer my goal is to reconsider my photographic output as photographic diaries which takes place in a certain period of my life and relate it within the perception of storytelling and boredom.