Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
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.
Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.