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When Photographers Get Beyond Copying The Achievements Of Others, Or Just Repeating Their Own Accidental First Successes, They Learn That They Do Not Know Where In The World They Will Find Pictures. Nobody Does. Each Photograph That Works Is A Revelation To Its Supposed Creator.

C.s. Lewis Admitted, When He Was Asked To Set Forth His Beliefs, That He Never Felt Less Sure Of Them Than When He Tried To Speak Of Them. Photographers Know This Frailty. To Them Words Are A Pallid, Diffuse Way Of Describing And Celebrating What Matters. Their Gift Is To See What Will Be Affecting As A Print. Mute.

Always Remember Deep In Your Heart That All Is Well And Everything Is Unfolding As It Should. There Are No Mistakes Anywhere, At Any Time. What Appears To Be Wrong Is Simply Your Own False Imagination. That's All.

You Can't Talk About Life Without Talking About Politics. You Have To Have Both. If You're Just A Political Person, You're Going To Burn Out. If You, As An Artist, Are Just Focused Inward, You're Going To Eventually Be Irrelevant.

In A Foreign Country It Is Far From Easy To Study A Scene At Length When You Know That At Any Minute Someone May Appear And Ask What You Are Doing And That You Can't Answer, And You Haven't Many References, And You Don't Know The Law. Neither Is It Easy To Find And Know The Subjects For Portraits Or Comfortable To Make Such Picture When You Cannot Apply An Anesthesia Of Small Talk.