"When I think about it, photographs, to me are really a kind of dream state.
It's not about a good dream, or a bad dream...
it's more that your day hazes and your mind drifts towards only
being concerned by your imaginings...
and, as you tour your imagination you want to photograph
what you are seeing... BUT...
the only way you can do this is by BELIEF...
really, really, utterly, absolutely, passionately, firmly believing...
you see, you are SO very keen to be able to show
what you've seen that somehow it becomes true,
and, the picture you end up taking becomes a souvenir,
a piece of proof brought back from the daydream."
-Tim Walker, London, 2008
The quote is from the foreward in Tim Walker's photography book, Pictures.
He has a way with words, what can I say?
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