The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than analogue. I think if we can speak of reality, if reality and representation can be spoken of in the same sentence, if reality even exists any more, digital is simply another way of encoding that reality.