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I Will Just Say, Appropriation Is An Intellectual Idea Until It Happens To You. It's A Philosophy, And It's Got Its Own Intellectual Framework. Then There's What Happens When It's Your Photograph. Then It's Personal, And That's All I'll Say.

There Are Grander And More Sublime Landscapes - To Me. There Are More Compelling Cultures. But What Appeals To Me About Central Montana Is That The Combination Of Landscape And Lifestyle Is The Most Compelling I've Seen On This Earth. Small Mountain Ranges And Open Prairie, And Different Weather, Different Light, All Within A 360-degree View.

One Of The Things That I Most Believe In Is The Compose And Wait Philosophy Of Photography. It’s A Very Satisfying, Almost Spiritual Way To Photograph. Life Isn't’ Knocking You Around, Life Isn't Controlling You. You Have Picked Your Place, You’ve Picked Your Scene, You’ve Picked Your Light, You’ve Done All The Decision Making And You Are Waiting For The Moment To Come To You.

This Might Seem Off The Track, But An Interesting Thing To Me That Others Could Talk About Better Than I, But One Of The Growth Areas In Photographic Education Has Been The So-called Slow Photography.

First Of All, I Appropriate Photographs.in Presenting The Richard Prince Photograph I Tried To Be As Neutral As I Could Be. I Put Down The Fact Of It. I Wanted It To Be The Same Thing He Wanted It To Be, An Open Ended Invitation To Think About Authorship, And Who Owns A Created Work. So I Pair It With My Appropriated Picture.