“Sometimes, perhaps we try so hard to imbue meaning and concept into our photographs that we actually close down this process, and in fact make them more empty. There is a fine line between too much content and too much concept.” – Cara Phillips
I have a photography friend who often says ‘you need to say something’ when talking about photography projects. And every time I hear that I always change it in my head to ‘you need to show something.’ As I’ve studied photography over the last few years I’ve been confronted with the same dilemma all documentary and fine art photographers face. What do you photograph and why?
I knew early on that I would never be a hard hitting documentary photographer who uses the lens to confront the varied social issues the country and world faces. I often quip, paraphrasing Warhol, ‘I’m a rather superficial photographer.’
