Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Photography helps people to see.
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
I've been working with photography for many years.
Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.