Aphorisms 7 - 18 July 2009

1

I’m an architectural photographer. Of the human face.

2

A photographer is a passive aggressive, he desperately wants to show the world with its pants down, but must wait for the world to undo the buttons.

3

Randomness is a better guide for what you should do with your day than what you think you should do. I don’t mean the shallow randomness of the dice. I mean the intense randomness of doing exactly what you really want to do.

4

I’d like to go back to the seventh grade and start again. I feel that I’m now emotionally ready for high school.

5

Photography is an attempt at stopping time so that we can fulfil our natural desire to stare. But there is an inkling that we are staring at our navels.

6

Pictures aren’t printed on paper, they are printed on mirrors.

7

I don’t believe in participation. I don’t like it. But I do believe in understanding. Of course, to really understand something, you have to participate.

8

The role of the burqa in Islamic countries is deplorable. It dehumanises these women and makes them into shapeless objects. I want to fuck them with their burqas on. By denying something so essential as a human face, a body, it takes away all power from these women and trivialises their autonomy.


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