Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.
It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.
Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
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