Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.