To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.