In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
I write what I see; I paint what I am.
If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.
When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.