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street photography
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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In arbitrary space
“The only attitude worthy of a superior man is to persist in an activity he recognizes is useless, to observe a discipline he knows is […]
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