The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us
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 GowinI made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously.
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