It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)
John DivolaI really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm using a flash because I don't know what it's going to do. I just see vague potentiality. It's really working with a set of attributes that will hopefully interact in an interesting way.
John DivolaThe photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.
John DivolaTo photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.
John Divola