Visible world
“Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was […]
artmaking/creative process
Out in the world
“What freedom! Just being out in the world, shooting whatever spoke to me or suggested itself to my eye. Actually, learning to listen to what […]
Under the sun
“Don’t censor yourself. Go ahead and photograph anything around you that seems interesting. Don’t compare yourself. People think ‘this has been done before’, and you […]
Poster generations
“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change […]
Le Red Tiger
“Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all […]
Ill-designed world
“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of […]
Zig zag wanderer
“When I work, no moment stands out as of any greater importance than any other moment. With each frame there is hope, but at no […]
Making pictures
“…To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making […]
Urban scrawl
“There is the world, and then there is a photograph. A photograph is not the world, it’s a completely different thing.” — Henry Wessel
Parking garage
*** “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, […]
Through-lines
Some days, when the mood strikes, I like to set my camera to square format and consider the world through that visual framing for a […]
Internal combustion
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]