The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don’t know, or already know and should take seriously.” He continues, “All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. In the process we collect a few random yet vivid facts that we didn’t know before.
Emmet Gowin
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
-e.e. cummings
Photography for me was a bit like collecting things. When I had a camera there was always a reason to go somewhere…
Tim Walker
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Eve Arnold
Photography is a strange phenomenon… You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.
Inge Morath