A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.