“ Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ”
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
~ Dorothea Lange
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.