“To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.” IdeasFallStuffInterestConsciousnessMysteryEmotionalPhotographyConsciousConceptsPhotographFlatsHookEffectivenessGrapplingFlatness Author:Todd Hido
“The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.” KnowsFirstsMomentsWaterConsciousnessPhotographGlassesGlancesDelayTablets Book:Known and Strange Things Source: Known and Strange Things
“All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.” IfsWorldFirstsLooksTwoOrderConsciousnessWindowPhotographOutside WorldGazing Author:Geoffrey Batchen
“Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.” IndividualConsciousnessPhotograph Author:Torbjørn Rødland