Notes from the field
On Photographs
A photograph preserves appearance. It does not preserve the encounter. The light is gone.The moment is gone.The observer has changed. What remains is a trace. Sometimes that is enough to...
On Photographs
A photograph preserves appearance. It does not preserve the encounter. The light is gone.The moment is gone.The observer has changed. What remains is a trace. Sometimes that is enough to...
On Encounter
The value was never in the photograph. The photograph is evidence. A trace. Proof that attention and circumstance met for a moment. The encounter happened first. Everything else followed.
On Encounter
The value was never in the photograph. The photograph is evidence. A trace. Proof that attention and circumstance met for a moment. The encounter happened first. Everything else followed.
On Value
I used to think value came from finding something new. Now I suspect it comes from returning to what is already here. A familiar path.A patch of grass.A flower nearing...
On Value
I used to think value came from finding something new. Now I suspect it comes from returning to what is already here. A familiar path.A patch of grass.A flower nearing...
On Preference
I rarely photograph manufactured objects now. Not because they are less interesting. Because they are often finished. A leaf is still becoming something else.
On Preference
I rarely photograph manufactured objects now. Not because they are less interesting. Because they are often finished. A leaf is still becoming something else.
On returns and changes
Once I had stopped fighting reality, I had energy left for people and creating things. One return at a time, slight changes compounded. A year has passed. The ordinary is...
On returns and changes
Once I had stopped fighting reality, I had energy left for people and creating things. One return at a time, slight changes compounded. A year has passed. The ordinary is...
On Why Nature Appears
Most of my photographs are not of nature. They are traces of encounters with time unfolding in space. Nature simply makes this unfolding visible. Time is always present. Change is...
On Why Nature Appears
Most of my photographs are not of nature. They are traces of encounters with time unfolding in space. Nature simply makes this unfolding visible. Time is always present. Change is...