“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”
— Sam Abell
It always feels like a gift when someone allows me to take their photograph. Though to be honest, I don’t always ask.
Sometimes, it feels like I’m stealing the moment. But I always try to do it with respect for the subject.
“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
— Eve Arnold
(The Beggar and the Basilica. Rome, 2023)
What do you do with your photos?
Really…I want to know. Many of us have created vast digital warehouses stuffed with images we care about. But how often do you look at them? Will future generations ever bother to sift through our gigabytes of memories? Or are we just unwitting victims of cloud storage services and megapixel-greedy phone manufacturers? I’d like to hear what you think.
