really, i like photography. a lot.

i love the idea of latent images. of something there, but invisible, until an outside event makes it emerge. there are things like that in all of us, for good and for bad.

i love film. i love mistakes. scratches in film and water drops on prints as a reminder that beauty is in the imperfections of life; in the imperfections of people.

i love my roll of underdeveloped film from my first attempt with a medium format camera. there is something there, but hazy and indistinguishable. it didn’t have enough time to really come out. sometimes, you just don’t get to know what would have happened, had “things” been different, had things had more time.

i love the dichotomy between light and darkness. the image is created by light, but must be carefully cultivated in darkness. otherwise it will be ruined and worthless.

darkness in the experiences of life are very much the same.

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