CxD #272: Photography + Learning to See
I started 2024 by indulging my senses in this gem, a masterwork of seeing and writing and garnering insights as though they grow on trees.
It starts with an epigraph from Dorothea Lange—a classically famous photographer— saying:
“The camera is an instrument that teaches how to see without the camera.”
I’ve dabbled with photography on and off and I’m back on the photographic horse again.
Because I want to see the world better. More deliberately. More lovingly. Maybe even more tenderly.
Like this:
The photographer Tamir was my student back in the day, my wedding photographer, and is now my teacher.
Source: Top 10 photographs of 2023
Tamir’s Instagram
3. The photographic horse that I’m riding has me responsible for taking a photograph a day and printing it. My tools:
4. My canvas:
5. Readers were generous to point out that The Boy, the Mole, the fox and the Horse is not only a book, but it also exists as a short film.
So much beauty in so many forms, in so many places. If you’re having a tough time, watch and read this.
6. Over on Fire Philosophy, I wrote about my life after having read a neurobiologist’s argument against free will.