" things happen this way "

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RICHARD AVEDON 1923 - 2004

in the light of another photographer fading, a rethinking of the practice, albeit in brief, is done out of respect.


all over the world, people are discovering the elation of photography and film.
these things, these boxes, these wonderous contraptions. cameras are not just metallic boxes that work in mechanical ways and the like. they are transporters of ideas; conduits of dreams that ignite the soul in a celluloid manifestation. as if you've never seen the world in any other way before.

as if you have realized that this is what the real world is. photography does not just capture more than a reflection of the real, it holds in it's hands a soul briefly, then transmorphs it into a stronger almost tangible apparation, released and free and beautiful.

since the invitation to digital, people have been ever-trying to compare the validity of the two against eachother. let's just say here and now that they are two different image-making mechanisms that function in similar ways. let's not fight about this anymore;

let's move beyond and past this obvious fact and make moving, lovely, documentary, textured, bare, sincere, wicked, bemused, languid, eroticized, jubilant, raw, honest photographs.

photography is not a lie, it is the word of truth.

homework: take a photo today, and create the change you wish to see.

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