What I Saw
“A photograph is not just the result of an encounter between an event and a photographer; picture-taking is an event in itself, and one with ever more peremptory rights — to interfere with, to invade, or to ignore whatever is going on. Our very sense of the situation is now articulated by the camera’s interventions. The omnipresence of the cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself—so that something else can be brought to the world, the photograph. After the event has ended, the picture will still exist, conferring on the event a kind of immortality (and importance) it would never otherwise have enjoyed. […] the photographer stays behind the camera, creating a tiny element of another world: the image-world that bids to outlast us all.” — Susan Sontag on Photography
What I Saw
What I see, what I hear, what I experience, what I feel are my own truths. We all have our own. What I Saw is a three-image series. You are encouraged to play around and create your own truth with mine.
This shall live longer than all of us, as all photographs do.
