“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
-William Faulkner-
13 Ways of Looking at a Photograph
- Aide-memoire
- Reportage
- Work of art
- Topography
- Erotica and pornography
- Advertisement
- Abstarct image
- Lieterature
- Text
- Autobiography
- Composition
- Means to end/tool
- Snapshot
-William Boyd-
On Photography
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
-Henri Cartier-Bresson-
On Journalism & Writing
“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
On Photography
“Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.”
-Nan Goldin-
On Art & Criticism
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot
On Purpose & Meaning
“An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not neccessarily against it.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
On Art & Criticism
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather follow your most intense passions mecilessly.”
-Franz Kafka-
Sights, Sounds, & Scribbles 