We can live in the empty spaces of this life
“Photographers who can teach us to love even vacant lots will do so out of the same sense of wholeness that inspired the wilderness photographers […]
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Mildly contemptible self-indulgent dilettante
“I have to admit that there is another reason I like photographers — they don’t tempt me to envy. The profession is short on dignity: […]
Colour is power
“Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you’re alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
Utopia’s pill
“We are moving into a period of bewilderment, a curious moment in which people find light in the midst of despair, and vertigo at the […]
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 […]
Without words
“This life I have made is too small. It doesn’t allow enough in: enough ideas, enough beliefs, enough encounters with the exuberant magic of existence. […]
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 […]
Going home
“I don’t know the meaning of this journey I was forced to make, between one and another night, in the company of the whole universe… […]
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 […]