photography

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...

They were both smiling so hard, it was surprising the frame could contain the happiness of that moment, surprising that it didn't shatter into a million pieces, floating all over the funeral home like dust.

Walking the streets with camera in hand is akin to being on a treasure hunt as a child.

Every photo tells a story but remember this, there was a story teller behind the lens.

You keep doing that and your camera is likely to explode.___re you crazy?_ Alfred smirked. __y camera is like me._ __ow so?_ __t adores you,_ Alfred told him.

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone.

The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience...

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

Actually, no. I won't ever go digital. I work with thirty-five or large format. I like the hand-jobs, you know. And I still do most of my own printing. I've developed such a profound distaste for touch-up and modern artifice__omes from snapping too many derelicts and detritus, perhaps, but I love it. Photo bloody Shop can go stuff it. A picture should be honest, even if the subject is contrived on the ground, you know; not dolled-up for advertising punch or sex appeal.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath, and the picture is admired beyond measure. The photographer finds the same pretty girl, he dresses her up and photographs her, and calls her Juliet, but somehow it is no good _ it is still Miss Wilkins, the model. It is too true to be Juliet.George Bernard ShawWilson__ Photographic Magazine, LVI, 1909

Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.

Looking at Loh__ photographs, it is obvious that there is nothing simpler and richer than a face when stripped of all effects and affects, poses and postures, stances and pretences. The Singaporeans featured here are almostexpressionless, as if the photographer wanted to leave us clueless about them. What do their faces tell us? Why are they so familiar? Why do we feel we know this auntie that we don__ know? And this guy with the nondescript look? And this girl with no distinguishing mark? Have we met before?

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.