Obedience to Curiosity

CREATIVITY HAPPENS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE UNKNOWN, and any creative endeavour ventures out into new territory with less-than-certain results. Curiosity is the insatiable desire to peer into that unknown and discover what lies there, to see what new possibilities exist. Curiosity is what has driven innovation, invention, and scientific discovery for centuries. As photographers, it is what drives us to discover and use new tools and means of expression. It’s what causes us to push beyond the obvious and the low-hanging fruit. For those who make photographs while traveling, it’s curiosity that gets us and our cameras into places we’ve never been, backstreets we never knew were there, and—perhaps most importantly—well out of ...

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