Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
Roland BarthesAs Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
Roland BarthesUsually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot โ or will not โ achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.
Roland Barthes