Documenting our Landscape

Image making exists only in the trace; it is an existential act of remembering the moment captured by the increment of time as the shutter snapped, first open, then closed…perhaps 1/250th of a second, perhaps 1/1000th of a second. Once captured, making the image is an act of creation that, through post-capture adjustments, allows the photographer to create the simulacrum of the moment of capture. One must always remember that the photograph is not the event captured, it is not the moment outside of time, it is not the four-dimensional experienced moment linearly replaced by another rather it is a finite accumulation of a series of moments transferred from four-dimensions into two. Once created it stands on its own, outside the response-ability of the photographer. In a sense it transfers its frozen image to the observer for analysis.