The Thing With My Workshops Is, Photography

I Have This Awareness That The More Dynamic The Situation Is, The More On Guard I Need To Be That The Dynamic Isn't Controlling The Situation. I Found That Myself In The Galapagos. For The First Time In My Life I Was Around Very Exotic Animals, Colorful, Beautiful, And Immediately Present, All Around. Birds, Turtles, Iguanas, Seals. I Was Being Seduced By Their Exoticism, I Was Taking Pictures.the Pictures Weren't Well Lit, There Was No Moment In Play, There Was No Depth To The Pictures. I Was Just Gawking With My Camera At Something I'd Never Seen Before.

First Of All, I Appropriate Photographs.in Presenting The Richard Prince Photograph I Tried To Be As Neutral As I Could Be. I Put Down The Fact Of It. I Wanted It To Be The Same Thing He Wanted It To Be, An Open Ended Invitation To Think About Authorship, And Who Owns A Created Work. So I Pair It With My Appropriated Picture.

A Mad, Keen Photographer Needs To Get Out Into The World And Work And Make Mistakes.

One Of The Things That I Most Believe In Is The Compose And Wait Philosophy Of Photography. It’s A Very Satisfying, Almost Spiritual Way To Photograph. Life Isn't’ Knocking You Around, Life Isn't Controlling You. You Have Picked Your Place, You’ve Picked Your Scene, You’ve Picked Your Light, You’ve Done All The Decision Making And You Are Waiting For The Moment To Come To You.

Exotic Novelty. My Statement To [people] Is Always, Well, Set This Picture In Your Home Town, Is It Still An Interesting Picture? Or Is It Just Exotic? Would I Care About This Same Picture Minus Its Exoticism?