Documenting our Landscape

Photographs are not rational in the sense that they are something to be talked about, reduced to language. No, they are to be experienced at every level of engagement from the creating of the image to the construction of meaning from the image through viewing. Yet, the photograph is not merely an emotional engagement with the visual. The making of the photographic image requires careful planning so that one might be in the right place at the right time ready to interact with one’s subject at the moment that the image occurs. Photographs, like all subjective medium, like all acts of intentionality, are first to be experienced visually, then emotionally, and only after that through expressive language.