getthebubbles
directional gaze
The poet Tess Gallagher once compared her writing process to fishing with her father: I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish. She believed…or says she believed…people would respond to her words if she asked them patiently and with the right hope. Temptation leavened with patience and hope.
It’s the same with photography, isn’t it. We take our idiosyncratic view of the world, we patiently shape it in a way to please ourselves, and we dangle it out there to tempt other people with the hope that they’ll see what we see. Sometimes they take the bait, sometimes they don’t. And sometimes we fish with an unbaited hook because we’re not really concerned with catching fish; we just enjoy the act of fishing.
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