When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Clarity affords focus.
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.
Photographs speak to me, and I obey.
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.