World Photography Day
Today we pay tribute to those who inspired us on this journey we call photography. Early on one who especially inspired me was W Eugene Smith whose haunting scenes from Minamata, Japan, particularly Tomoko and her bath, made me want to get beyond just pretty scenes and take photographs on a it makes a difference scale.
It’s been fairly easy finding the pretty scenes, but the makes a difference scenes too far and few in between. One came in the last meeting of my mother and her friend Margaret. While all we’re glad handing in the background unaware this emotional moment was taking place, I was fortunate to see and preserve the moment. It wasn’t the camera, it was an iPhone, it was in the taking, the seeing.
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