The Essence of Photography
Photography is a distillation of reality, a choosing of emotions, form: that which cannot be expressed verbally. It is akin to music, evoking emotions that reside deep in one's soul. Cultural fragments, genetic memory, smells of lilacs from hundreds of years ago, recognition of form and texture that only ancient peoples remember. It is a self-remembering, a deep breath of the soul.
Certain landscapes and people – faces, limbs, curves, digits – invoke those feelings more easily.
Photos of corners of New Mexican buildings, places where spirits congregate.
Images of streams releasing energizing ions, and of clouds as they separate and unravel.
From My Journal, June 15, 1996.
Jerome Martin