I like to venture out pre-dawn and arrive somewhere just as the sun is rising. I usually take walks on mundane streets in ordinary towns close to where the run-of-the-mill intersects the humdrum. I don't know what pictures will come my way. I don't want to know. This is photography.
Light, darkness, gesture, movement, candidness, are in abundance. All I can do is greet the elements halfway by being there; walking quietly. Disappearing. Responding.
I become a stranger in an alien landscape; letting chance, mystery, and the spiritual do the heavy lifting. The elements that constitute a successful photograph are not really things you see in the viewfinder. The oddity that transgresses the space without your knowledge, and at just the right time if it involves movement, is the element of photography that is the most exciting. The most spiritual.
The purpose for me is not to photograph objects. Instead, the purpose is to reveal presence and to allow the viewer to also be present within this pure, honest visual event. Or non-event most likely.
Light, darkness, gesture, movement, candidness, are in abundance. All I can do is greet the elements halfway by being there; walking quietly. Disappearing. Responding.
I become a stranger in an alien landscape; letting chance, mystery, and the spiritual do the heavy lifting. The elements that constitute a successful photograph are not really things you see in the viewfinder. The oddity that transgresses the space without your knowledge, and at just the right time if it involves movement, is the element of photography that is the most exciting. The most spiritual.
The purpose for me is not to photograph objects. Instead, the purpose is to reveal presence and to allow the viewer to also be present within this pure, honest visual event. Or non-event most likely.
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