The Work is What Matters Most

The work that we create is the most important thing, we need to constantly be working at making the photographs we feel are important. If you spend a lifetime making photographs and those photographs are forgotten, that is sad. If you spend a lifetime making photographs and they are shown and then forgotten, that is also sad. The goal I think is to make a lifetime of photographs that are important and lasting. If those photographs are discovered before or after you die is of little importance.

We all want our work seen in our lifetime but if that does not happen should we give up? Should we stop making photographs? Of course not! We need to keep creating, the creation of new personal work should be the goal, not acceptance by others.

Is Eugene Atget work any less powerful now because the images were not recognized in his lifetime? No!!!!