“What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity."

~ Berenice Abbott

 

"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life would result in his or her personal vision of the world. No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination”

 

~ Edward Hopper

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"I was lucky to discover a group of pine trees in 2007, while photographing watchtowers on the east coast beaches of Gangwando. When I first saw this copse, the trees were dramatic and dark, set against grey, ominous clouds. I photographed them at dusk, until it started to rain, and then drove off to visit a Buddhist temple many miles away. I was unaware that these trees were imminently at risk to be cut down and replaced with a liquified natural gas industrial development. Fortunately, an environmental movement was set up to fight against the destruction of the trees and it succeeded in preserving them. I was very happy to later learn that my photograph was used as part of their campaign. The LNG plant was eventually built, but it was put underground and the trees survive to this day. I have revisited this location many times since and intend to continue photographing these beautiful trees."

 

~ Michael Kenna

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"For me the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to give a meaning to the world, one has to feel involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, discipline of mind, sensitivity and a sense of geometry. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression"

 

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908-2004)

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"My photographs are acts of eloquent homage and deep remorse about the city. I am profoundly moved by it’s lyric beauty and horrified by it’s cruelty and suffering"

~ Louis Stettner
(1922-2016)

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“I said to her, "Do something with the spirit of the studio corner" and she started to move on the sofa. She just made a movement. I took only two photographs. No need to shoot a hundred rolls like people do today. People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment - the moment when something when something changes into something else”

~ Andre Kertész

 

“Whatever we have done, Kertesz did first. We all owe something to Kertesz”

 

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

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“Staff photographers, freelancers and everyone who owned a camera, were all hoping to get published in LIFE Magazine. It was like getting one week of fame instead of the 15 minutes Andy Warhol talked about”

 

~ Allan Grant 

(1909-2008)

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“If “The Wild One” were filmed today Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when Hells Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bike riders would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn’t have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know and that as long as Harley Davidsons are manufactured other bike riders will appear riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago into the streets of Cicero”

 

~ Danny Lyon

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“If you ask me what feelings the Eiffel Tower evokes for me, I’d have to say that indeed it’s a matter of sentiments. Those one feels for an old friend one is always glad to see again. A friend who was responsible for my first publication in LIFE in 1953. In the course of a long voyage full of more wear and rather less reason, laying eyes on this great lady again, you’re sure that at last you are home again. She is always there, quite erect, a bit arrogant as she looks down on us from so far above. More than ever she is courted by an increasing number of lovers who climb to conquer her. Her image marked our childhood and coming home from the country on a Sunday evening everyone of my children played the same game at the same age of around 3 or 4 of seeing who would be the first to see the familiar tower in the Paris sky.”

 

~ Marc Riboud. 1923-2016

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"For me color is not the most important part of the picture. For me it is the story. It’s the emotional content in the picture"

 

~ Steve McCurry

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“The most valuable things in a life are a man’s memories. And they are priceless”

 

~ Andre Kertész

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“You see, when models work with men, they strike up a pose and so on…..With me they were always totally relaxed, I was just a woman photographing another woman. And who was very relaxed as well.”

 

~ Lillian Bassman

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"Photographing Lenny was always an event. There was always a buzz in the air, an excitement, an anticipation. When Lenny was in the house, something was going to happen. We didn’t know what, but we were on the edges of our chairs waiting to find out. I say we, as if I were one of the musicians. But I was also on stage (or hovering close by), and I found myself equally compelled to rise above my limits, and break through my upper expectations... And that was good. I was never able to let my guard down for a second – my concentration had to be complete if I wanted to follow where he was going – his energy could burst forth suddenly, his body leaping high off the podium, his arms flying in the air, eyes blazing, mouth agape… and then receding just as quickly, and barely moving, conducting with only his shoulders or eyebrows, eyes closed, deep inside the soul of the conductor…. Whatever it was, it was total immersion in the music, and the results are legendary. That night in March 1990, there was no way to know that Leonard Bernstein was struggling or that these would be the last photographs I would ever take of The Maestro. These performances were vintage Bernstein; he was as powerful and vital as ever, and it was thrilling. Yet, some point during the concert, it began to dawn on me that something was off, something was wrong. Not that it showed to the audience, but I was seeing something in him I had never before seen. His usual joy and light had somehow dimmed, and he had a gentle but profound sadness in his eyes, a deeper melancholy than I had ever before seen……Lenny died 7 and a half months later. Years after, as I was looking through these photos, I could not deny what I was seeing, so I emailed his daughter Jamie and asked if he knew at that time that he was dying. She emailed back: “I don’t know the answer to the question. But he knew ‘something wasn't right’ as far back as that January. I think maybe he had a feeling...”

 

~ Steve J. Sherman

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“I never had a “project”. I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes-- what they noticed. I tried to capture with my camera for others to see”

 

~ Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

“I believe that the greatest creativity stems from the childlike nature that one has retained”

 

~ Sarah Moon

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“Most important was the outdoor studio that was Paris. I would take long daily walks with my camera, leaving myself open to what ever happened around me. Sometimes I am asked why I did it. There was no economic basis and the possibility of recognition was slight. I suppose I was drawn by a great need and love to get close to the world around me. Each photograph was a way of reaching out and an act of discovery”

 

~ Louis Stettner (1922-2006)

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“We had no idea about what we would find because it was the first time in my life that I would photograph landscapes and animals. Until then, I had only photographed one animal species in my career: the human being. So, it was an exceptional challenge”

 

~ Sebastião Salgado

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"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

 

~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Washington National Cathedral, March 31, 1968

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“This photograph of sand, sea and sky was made one early, cloudy morning on a beach in Calais, France. The exposure was probably about twenty minutes, judging by the movement of water and clouds. Over the years, my vision has been influenced by countless other photographers and I have often viewed my subject matter from the privileged shoulders of giants. I have long admired Hiroshi Sugimoto’s time exposure photographs of seafronts and theater screens. Even while making this image, I knew that it was heavily inspired by Sugimoto’s work. In Japanese, “Arigato" means “Thank you”, and “San" is an honorific word used after somebody’s name as a token of respect and esteem. Hence, Thank you Mr. Sugimoto!”

 

~ Michael Kenna 

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“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us”

 

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908-2004)

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“Photography is a combination of the right choice of detail, the elimination of all that is inessential and the right moment that makes the picture”

 

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky

(1912-2016)

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“When I take pictures, I let reality decide what to do. I only take one when I’m deeply moved by what I see”

 

~ Louis Stettner (1922-2016)

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“When you take a photograph, you are selecting an instant of life. It is like a personal discovery that I want to show everybody else, not as an achievement of mine but as something I want to share because I feel it is important”

 

~ Mariana Yampolsky

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“It is a scientistic fact that color affects the body"

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“Photography is nothing. It’s life that interests me"

 

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

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“The Culture in which one lives, especially during childhood affects the entire way one perceives what we call reality. Our perception and our being in the world are bound up with the way we lived when we were children. No one leaves childhood unharmed. It is something we must deal with for the rest of our lives. And I think art is indeed a way of doing so. It allows us to revisit and re-interpret the pain and trauma of the past. In my case having lived in a country ravaged by more than 30 years of armed conflict this approach is particularly meaningful. The subjects of fear, loneliness, emptiness and absence are deeply embedded in my work”

 

~ Luis Gonzalez Palma

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“I do not use the word “genius” lightly but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing”

 

~ Mick Rock

 

“As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself”

 

~ David Bowie

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“Photography is much more than just taking pictures – it is a way of life. What you feel, what you want to express, is your ideology and your ethics. It’s a language that allows you to travel over the wave of history.”

 

~ Sebastião Salgado

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“I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene”

~ Mick Rock

 

“Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions the listener has"

~ Lou Reed
(1942-2013)

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"A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it."

 

~ Willy Ronis
( 1910 - 2009 )

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"Photography is a unique visual language that cannot be expressed in words. As a matter of fact, if it can be expressed in words, then it probably isn’t worth photographing."

 

~ Charles Harbutt

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“At first, I looked questionably at the field weeds and stems stuck into a vase, but on further scanning of the back ground, I became enamored of the pane of glass dappled with raindrops and misty patches of light. I was taken with how beautifully dark and light were splashed throughout the image and how easily the stems and dry flowers graced the vase. Taken as a whole, this photo meets the eye as an overall texture rather than as neatly grouped elements with a frame. Were it not for some of the parts showing how crisply they can be delineated by the camera lens, I would describe this photograph as being gently impressionistic."

 

~ Paul Caponigro

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"San Francisco is still a magical city. If I were a little tougher, I'd put aside that sentimental romanticism. But the city is the people, and that's what persists. Maybe it's a sickness we all have, but we keep attempting to recreate a lot of what attracted us here in the first place."

 

~ Fred Lyon 

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"Working initially in Japan and then further afield in Asia reaffirmed for me what many artists, such as Albers, Brandt and Rothko, had already taught me: it is not necessary, or even desirable, to fill a rectangle with details. This “empty” white field of snow, shaded from grey to white, invites me, and I hope other viewers, to wander into its open expanse, leaving our tracks behind, before gazing into the distance where a magical mountain appears, floating on the horizon, almost as a mirage. On the right, black trees mark the edge of a forest, suggesting a whole other point of departure. Photography records and describes, but also interprets and invites. As the world continues to spin faster and faster, providing endless distractions, I increasingly prefer to spend time away from crowds, buildings, noise and screens, out in nature. If that is not possible, I can at least look at artworks made in these places and perhaps almost get lost in my own imagination.”

 

~ Michael Kenna

"They were getting ready for their annual Village Fete and the lady was calling a friend to get the recipe for some tarts to bake. Her little girl had been in a phone box and found out that if you pressed Button B then sometimes money came out (Do you remember the old UK phone boxes?). The Mother therefore told the child that she had to face outwards and keep her hands off the buttons. I heard this story more than 50 years later when I showed the pictures in Pembridge Village Hall and I met the former child. This picture was on the cover of the Sunday Times issue”

 

~ John Bulmer

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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

 

~ Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)

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“We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, anyone of which might say something significant”

 

~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

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"This photo was taken in Parc Monceau, which is in a fairly wealthy part of Paris. I was staying fairly close by on the Avenue de Wagram. The Deux Chevaux is the iconic car of mid-Twentieth Century France and its familiar and unique design has always stood out to me. In the photo, I am interested in this particularly well-worn 2CV juxtaposed against the classical columns of the park's rotunda. All these years later, I'm amazed by black and white photography's ability to preserve the fading light of a fall day that took place decades ago."

 

~  Mark Steinmetz

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“I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.”

 

~ Josef Sudek

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"All I ask you to do is to listen with your eyes. The international language of jazz and photography need no special education or sophistication to be enjoyed."

 

~ William Claxton

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“I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind’s eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver”

~ Paul Caponigro

 

"Come away, O human child to the waters and the wild. With a faery, hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

 

~ W. B. Yeates (The Stolen Child)

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“There’s a time for photographs that say “hello”. And there’s a time to listen”

 

~ Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)

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"A photograph is a collision between a person with a camera and reality. The photograph is typically as interesting as the collision is."

 

~ Charles Harbutt

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"I was not prepared for the brutal cold which froze my bones and reduced me to an inexpressive drooling zombie by the end of the ride. To be fair, I was warned that it might get a bit chilly, photographing above Manhattan in the middle of winter, while strapped to the outside of an open helicopter. For the most part, I could not feel my finger tips, so was unsure when I had even made a photograph. And, there were the rolling waves of nausea, (which I would rather not elaborate on), as the helicopter banked and circled, with my eyes stuck to the back of the camera viewfinder. I relied on the statistical law of probability that if I kept photographing, at least one picture might turn out ok. I loved this one of the Empire State Building, the moment I saw it on the contact sheet. There are copious other images from different angles and points of view, but I think this has a certain magic. Perhaps someday I will go back into the darkroom to print one or two of the other negatives, but first, I need to get warm."

 

~ Michael Kenna

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“If I take a picture I have to account for it. I have opened something to someone’s reality”

 

~ Bruce Davidson 

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“I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation”

 

~ Elliott Erwitt

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“I arrived at this location from London and had only a couple of days due to the low budget. One thing I tried to do when I arrived somewhere was to get a local map and drive to a hill or vantage point to get a sense of the place. When I got to the top I saw the view over the old pottery kilns and the man with a dog. As a newspaper photographer that I then was I always had my long lens on a camera, loaded and ready, so I was able to grab it and get this shot before he walked off"

 

~ John Bulmer

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“I was driving around Yorkshire and stopped by the bridge. I pretended to be photographing the buildings and switched at the last minute to catch the girls. I met one of the ladies in the picture fifty years later when the BBC did a little film about an exhibition I had in Wakefield. She rang The BBC and said “I’m the girl in the picture”. We were both invited to the studio to meet on air”

 

~ John Bulmer

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“To be born in a country which is not free means that you appreciate freedom. You don’t think of it as something automatic, and you don’t want anyone to take it from you”

 

~ Josef Koudelka

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“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde

"This photograph, “First Light, Oregon, 2020”, was made at a small lake in the mountains of central Oregon on a crisp late summer morning. It’s a place I go back to over and over again. Every day seems to have new secrets to reveal. I enjoy sleeping close to the water’s edge and waking very early to revel in the wonderful peace. There is something captivating to me about the way the mist gathers and rises at dawn. I find it mesmerizing."

 

~ Jeffrey Conley

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"I like people to be entertained, but I don't want it to be empty. I like to give some nourishment."

 

~ Fred Zinnemann
(1907-1997)

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“A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.”

 

~ Arnold Newman

 

"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"

 

~ Pablo Picasso

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"I see pictures I would like to take, I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it. I keep thinking I'm being softened up for something really grim. And it hasn't happened yet."

 

~ Fred Lyon
(1924 - 2022)

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"I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man’s influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man’s traces."

 

~ Michael Kenna

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“Every professional should remain always in his or her heart an amateur”

 

~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
(1898-1995)

 

“I can’t live one day without hearing music, playing it, studying it or thinking about it”

 

~ Leonard Bernstein
(1918-1990)

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"I never, ever, went out without my camera, even to buy bread."

 

~ Willy Ronis
(1910 - 2009)

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

 

~ James Baldwin

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“I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite”

 

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

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"A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. The detail is as important as the essential is."

 

~ Christian Dior

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“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters.”

 

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

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"The photograph came off as planned. What had seemed to some as too dangerous or difficult to accomplish, became my fantasy fulfilled, and my most memorable self–assigned photograph."

~ Ormond Gigli
(1925 - 2019)

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"My artistic eye is black and white. I'm used to seeing and visualizing in black and white and have only one way of taking pictures."

 

~ Gianni Berengo Gardin

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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

 

~ Helen Keller

“It is difficult to conceive of a substance more impressively brilliant than the spurting plumes of white waters in sunlight against a deep blue sky”

 

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

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"I shoot film. I don’t think I could do work that I really believe in with the feel and the look that I want if I was shooting digitally. There’s a certain resistance that I’ve got. But the light coming through a 6×7 Pentax lens hitting on film, is something digital can’t duplicate—and I love the look of it."

 

~ Kurt Markus

(1947-2022)

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"What I can’t believe is how much I love photography even after all these years, it’s still brand new to me even though, you know, I started working the dark room at thirteen, it’s been my only job, whether I was teaching it or making it."

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don’t want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.”

 

~ Sebastião Salgado

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"I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light."

 

~ Louis Kahn

"The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way."

 

~ Ezra Stoller

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“In Japan, cherry blossoms, also known as Sakura, are venerated throughout the country as reminders and symbols of the transience and blissful glory of life. Festivals are planned and national meteorological advisories are broadcast to predict and document the sweeping pink wave which starts on the southern island of Okinawa in late February and moves up to northern Hokkaido by early May. In 2002, I was fortunate to be in Nara, Honshu at the perfect time. After a long day of exploring, and with the light fading, I came across these lush trees along the banks of a small canal as I walked back to my hotel. I had no tripod, and to keep the camera steady I jammed it up against a roadside fence. I could hardly see anything in the viewfinder, yet it resulted in this lovely, sweeping, out of focus, foreground shape. I quite forgot about this photograph until the negatives were processed and contact sheets made. The subsequent discovery was a delightfully unexpected and wonderful surprise.”

 

~ Michael Kenna

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“I see that I could stop touring at anytime, but then I don’t feel like it right now. I’ve got no retirement plans”

 

~ Bob Dylan

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"Get a book of great photographs and spend a week studying each shot. Every day, think about a different aspect: subject, composition, tonal range, the moment when the image was taken and how the photograph was made."

 

~ Pentti Sammallahti

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"If you ever saw me on a set—not now that I'm 94, but when I photographed for real, you know, on my feet—the moment I got interested in what I was doing, my shoes went off. I would get on the paper, dance barefoot, dance for the models, move in the way I wanted them to move, really dance barefoot in front of the camera, take on the body movements that I felt would get them to move—actually to dance in front of the camera."

 

~ Lillian Bassman
(1917 - 2012)

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“If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.”

 

~ Steve McCurry

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“I couldn’t believe I was going to photograph Bob Dylan. I chose the Ambassador Hotel because of the variety it gave me as a location. It also had a great history. It was where the Rat Pack used to hang out and play at its Coconut Grove Room. Also Robert Kennedy was assassinated there. Dylan was also interested in the history of the location. I think he stayed a few hours more for that reason. We also decided to create images with atmosphere and capturing special moments. We decided to find some props and someone came back with some foreign language newspapers and we thought it would be fun to go with that. I was simply amazed he even showed up !”

 

~ Danny Clinch

 

“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do”

 

~ Bob Dylan

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“Adams feels deeply what he sees, he has a reverence for the earth in all its variety, delicacy and strength, but he is the absolute reverse of effusive: he sees with such austerity, even severity, that some have mistakenly called him cold. He has an incomparable technical expertness in communicating what he sees and feels, and for half a century and more he has gone on making photographs so plainly stamped with his personal artistry that they hardly need his steeple-A signature on them. They have taught thousands how to see: they have become household images, they have steadily affirmed life.”

 

~ Wallace Stegner

(1909-1993)

 

“I had a fine north-light window in my San Francisco home which gave beautiful illumination, especially on foggy days. My mother had proudly brought me a large, pale pink rose from our garden and I immediately wanted to photograph it. The north light from the window was marvelous for the translucent petals of the rosebud. I could not find an appropriate background. Everything I tried, bowls, pillows, stacked books and so on was unsatisfactory. I finally remembered a piece of weathered plywood picked up at nearby Baker Beach as wave - worn driftwood. Two pillows on a table supported the wood at the right height under the window and the rose rested comfortably upon it. The relationship of the plywood design to the petal shapes was fortunate and I lost no time completing the picture “

 

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

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“Photography is space, light, texture of course but the really important element is time - that nano second when the image organizes itself on the ground glass”

 

~ Ezra Stoller

 

"Fallingwater is a great blessing - one of the great blessings to be experienced here on earth, I think nothing yet ever equalled the coordination, sympathetic expression of the great principle of repose where forest and stream and rock and all the elements of structure are combined so quietly that really you listen not to any noise whatsoever although the music of the stream is there. But you listen to Fallingwater the way you listen to the quiet of the country..."

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

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"This is work. My work contains everything I love. It is all in each photograph. No darkness. No despair. No evil. No fear. Love chooses the settings. Love chooses the props. It is both the myth and the reality of my existence. My life on earth, to share. At the same time, it is a document and an homage to all that has inspired me."

~ Sheila Metzner

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"The key point is not the technique of how the image was made, but the idea and the vision."

 

~ Melvin Sokolsky
(1933 - 2022)

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"The very boldness with which Eugene manipulated the negative by scratching and painting forced even those with strong sympathy for the purist line of thinking like White, Day and Stieglitz to admire Eugene's particular touch...[he] created a new syntax for the photographic vocabularity, for no one before him had hand-worked negatives with such painterly intentions and a skill unsurpassed by his successors."

 

~ Weston Naef

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"...Jacques Lowe was monumentally self-effacing. This, I believe, is why his camera caught so much human truth. There are no orchestrated 'photo-opportunities here..."

 

~ Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
American Historian and Social Critic
(1917 - 2007)

"This delicate tree, sitting quietly and improbably in the cold waters of Wanaka Lake, is possibly one of the most photographed trees in New Zealand. I have had the great pleasure to visit it several times, and have usually waited in line behind bus loads of visiting tourists before being able to say hello. On this early pre-dawn morning, however, I was delighted to find myself alone, until I discovered some unexpected company in the form of birds, contentedly sleeping on the tree’s branches. My usual M.O. is to make long time exposures so that clouds and water transform into timeless and enigmatic mists. As the emerging light slowly began to appear, I made several such exposures, aware that both the branches and birds were moving. I was waiting for the birds to leave, before I could make what I considered to be a classical Kenna image, which I later printed and titled 'Wanaka Lake Tree, Study 1'.

Several years passed and I was asked by the publisher Atelier Xavier Barral to participate in a series of books they were publishing on birds, 'Les Oiseaux'. I went through my negative files and discovered many unprinted negatives in which birds were depicted, including this image which I subsequently titled 'Wanaka Lake Tree, Study 2’.

I have long felt that aesthetic decisions should never be dogmatic, and should always be challenged and doubted. At the time I made the photographs, I was convinced that the tree 'sans oiseaux" was the stronger image. Now I am less sure. Time has a way of playing with one’s emotions and sensibilities.
Our views sometimes change, precisely because we are alive and changeable, which I find immensely reassuring!"

 

~ Michael Kenna