Substrate

“In either, the undeniable fact is that we are working in a world of more as a result of AI: more content, more noise, more distractions competing for our attention. The challenge is consistent — how do you cut through and create meaning?”

“‘Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be’ — Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility 1935”

“I don’t think ‘art’ is what all photographers strive for, or even need to strive for.

Most war photographers are/were not seeking to make art, for example.

Their work is still significant, because art is not the pinnacle of visual culture.

Visual culture needn't be viewed as a pyramid.”

“But I understand the appeal. The car as freedom. The car as potential. The car as the American Dream. A box of limitless possibility parked right in the driveway. For many, a car is a self-portrait in motion, a symbol of who they are—or who they want to be.”

“A good photograph of a classic car shouldn’t focus on the car alone. It should illuminate the world around it, the time and place it inhabits. A dream car by itself is inert. It must be in dialogue with its surroundings, in a conspiracy with its space.”

“You’ll see yourself in new ways.”

“So you can say a person is not just about how they look or what they do, but what sounds through them–their soul, their energy, and the stories they inhabit as they move through the world.“