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The most interesting photograph I’ve taken in a long time. #twoears

SF, May 2001.

Desk, 2014

Desk, 2014.

Now I think I make photographs as a way of locating myself in space and time, the memory function. At least the pictures that mean anything to me. Forget about the work, that is paying bills. Recently I got chain-social-media-ed onto the bwchallenge, so I went through a lot of old negs looking at stuff and what sticks for me is that capacity photography has to fix an image, and as a repository of information. You can scan this stuff at 6000ppi and zoom in BladeRunner style on little elements, you can see what you were writing in your journal that day or what was on your desk. I think without that I’d feel very dislocated. You don’t really have the present, except in a few moments when you get in the meditation focus zone, whether that is in exercise or some kind of be-in-your body moment, and that is lived experience, but photography gives us this ability to think about a present moment past. It is what is unique about it. Film doesn’t do that. Its extending the moment. Dreams are a little bit like that too, you’ll have a dream and you go somewhere in that dream that is so familiar yet lost to you, and you have this deja-vu moment of “I’ve been here before” and you know everything about that place, what the space is, if its a house or a room or a store, and it is like you had hidden something there to retrieve later, and if only you can remember this dream into your waking life then you could retrace your steps exactly and then in the real world you would find that place and have access to whatever is stored there. That is photography in a nutshell.

December 2014 Ajax.

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