I don't take photos to make art
On memory and admiration
I don't take photos to make art. I take photos to remember, and as an expression of appreciation for what I see.
Memory and admiration, as much as any idea, can challenge our perceptions and the modern conventional thinking. Memory and admiration are as bold as any marked speech or provocative film.
Our media-obsessed world isn't conducive to the gentle perspectives offered by most photographers. Most photographs are reduced to content if not poignant enough.
The world doesn't need more content or even more poignant images — we need a collective memory not marred by myths, and a greater capacity for admiring simple beauty in nature, in ourselves, and in each other.
Photography and other practices of simple documentation can lend these gifts to the world, mending the scars of our desire for more extreme, more stuff, more more.
