Photographs and postcards, as Susan Sontag writes in On Photography, “give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.” Not merely a “way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it.”
So what does this say about every time I pick up a camera?
Everything. or it ought to, at least. give people your imaginary possessions, nothing less. create their unreality for yourself — it’s actually a selfless act, if you’re up to it. document is creation. what do you want to see?
I’m saving this.