Why Photography

I am starting this blog as an attempt to keep myself rooted (and motivated) in my desire to write and curate on a professional level. Living in new york I am fortunate to experience a wide variety of artistic practices - but where my interests have always seemed to lead is toward the medium of photography.

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There is something enticing about photographs. Perhaps what appeals to me is that they not only seem to capture an exact moment, the corresponding emotion and the appropriate response, but they also expose the photographer's point of view. While photographs can be easily manipulated, either through the placement of subjects, props or technology, there continues to be an pseudo-inherent truth that permeates the image. Perhaps it is this idea of facticity that is rarely present but often assumed that I am trying to explore.

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Throughout this process I hope to not only discuss specific images and critics, but to also delve into my own thoughts on the rhetoric of photography through lectures and exhibitions that I attend and experience. And, of course I hope to share photographs that not only appeal to me aesthetically but also interest the reader and in turn provoke a larger discussion.