We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.
Emmet GowinFor me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
Emmet GowinI was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.
Emmet GowinPhotography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.
Emmet GowinOf course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.
Emmet Gowin