Almost Inevitably There Are Tensions In The

However, I Must Stress That My Own Interest Is Immediate And In The Picture. What I Am Conscious Of And What I Feel Is The Picture I Am Making, The Relation Of That Picture To Others I Have Made And, More Generally, Its Relation To Others I Have Experienced.

If You Look Very Intensely And Slowly Things Will Happen That You Never Dreamed Of Before.

We Look At The World And See What We Have Learned To Believe Is There. We Have Been Conditioned To Expect... But, As Photographers, We Must Learn To Relax Our Beliefs.

Producing A Photographic Document Involves Preparation In Excess. There Is First The Examination Of The Idea Of The Project. Then The Visits To The Scene, The Casual Conversations, And More Formal Interviews - Talking, And Listening, And Looking, Looking. ... And Finally, The Pictures Themselves, Each One Planned, Talked, Taken And Examined In Terms Of The Whole.

What Is The Subject Matter Of This Apparently Very Personal World? It Has Been Suggested That These Shapes And Images Are Underworld Characters, The Inhabitants Of The Vast Common Realm Of Memories That Have Gone Down Below The Level Of Conscious Control. It May Be They Are. The Degree Of Emotional Involvement And The Amount Of Free Association With The Material Being Photographed Would Point In That Direction.