artmaking/creative process
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Urban scrawl
“There is the world, and then there is a photograph. A photograph is not the world, it’s a completely different thing.” — Henry Wessel
Parking garage
*** “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, […]
Through-lines
Some days, when the mood strikes, I like to set my camera to square format and consider the world through that visual framing for a […]
Internal combustion
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]
In the moment
*** “Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures […]
That elusive wonder
“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent […]