The Need for Love

IN ORDER TO PUT A HUMAN SPARK into our photographs and create something that’s more than just an exercise in pressing buttons, you have to care. Hell, you have to love. And I don’t mean it in the way we love our favourite food (unless you spend as much time and energy on your favourite food as you do on your photography, in which case you get a pass). I mean it sincerely and in the most passionate sense.

No one wants to see the work of an artist who dabbles (the end result of someone who was merely curious about cameras, though curiosity deeply matters) any more than we want to see the paintings of the painter who was just curious about brushes and canvas. What we want, as far as art is concerned, is the artist half-mad from ...

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