I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.
Jerry UelsmannThe simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, thereโs a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
Jerry UelsmannWell, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.
Jerry Uelsmann