Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.