We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.
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.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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.
If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
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.
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.