Gum bichromate from Wasp Nest series, 2015
How do you hear the timbre of a heart? For the past two days, more than anything else, I’ve heard the question, “what do you photograph?”. I cringe and struggle to answer, as if the question itself forces me to succumb to the idea that the primary reason to use a camera is to document some object in front of my gaze: people, food, birds…something.
“Why do you photograph?” is a much more revealing question. Are you expressing something within yourself, exposing the unseen, experiencing the world in a more intimate way? And how does this medium create that connection for you? What drives you? What excites you about moving through life and transforming light, time and space into a two-dimensional representation as pixels or fixed onto paper?
We confine ourselves within the “what” if we scarcely recognize the “why”… and how will we ever make a deep an authentic connection if we only dip our toes into the edge of an ocean?
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