Getting It Right
Month: March 2026
Momento Mori
All photographs are memento mori.
To take a photograph is to participate in another
person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.
Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it,
all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt
- Susan Sontag
Soulful Photography
When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes.
But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!
- Ted Grant
Sometimes their souls are colorful too.
Snap Decisions and Snap Shots
A photojournalist makes snap decisions; based on the ability
to quickly assess situations and record one’s perceived truth.
- Jack Dykinga
This applies not just to photojournalists, but to all photographers in general.
There's a reason they're called snapshots.