The Bigger Picture

There are many things to learn. The point of the arts isn’t to make a living doing art. Instead, if done well, we’ll witness the lived reality of the person making something become more widely known.

Am I working on photography, or is it working on me? The weird thing is that if you practice it well, someone else will walk up and take a nearly identical picture, allowing you to look over and say hello.

Change brings tradeoffs. There are no perfect options, and the sooner we accept this, the happier we’ll feel.

It needs to feel worked. The photographer is an armchair artist, a backseat gallerist, and a wordless poet — a few screws shy of loud criticism, ever-present.

There’s a side of photography that happens before we take a picture and another that comes later, and sometimes if we’re lucky, we’ll live in the moment.