Country walking.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people’s ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzsche meant when he said, “I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.” He knew how insidious other people’s ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound […]
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one’s cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite. — John Szarkowski
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. — Dorothea Lange
“Double Vision – A Very Strange Photo Album” is a collection of double exposures created from the numerous photos taken whilst walking in the south on England during 2016. The premise was to make a traditional family photo album but fill it with particularly strange images.
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug a camera. — Lewis Hine
As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work …. you can only see what you are ready to see—what mirrors your mind at that particular time. — George Tice
