Expectations
A developer explains to me that the web site’s back-end is making a guess at which cities to include in a list, but that it’s sometimes wrong. A guessing algorithm, my mind boggles, and in that moment I feel the…
Interview with Christopher Anderson
"You may agree or disagree with my perspective but you'll know if I'm being honest about my perspective, and I think that is the thing that we can recognize in an image."
—Christopher Anderson (GUP Magazine)
—Christopher Anderson (GUP Magazine)
Pause Transition
"Pre-packaged with the camera’s ability to freeze life mid-sentence is also our implicit allowance to sacrifice the entirety of the experience to its souvenir."
(GUP Magazine, 2012)
(GUP Magazine, 2012)
Interview with Antoine d’Agata
"If I die tomorrow, I won’t learn anything, I won’t feel anything. If I want to stay alive, I have to protect myself so, the way I see it, the only choice we have as human beings is to put ourselves in the condition to keep trying as much as we can."
—Antoine d'Agata (GUP Magazine)
—Antoine d'Agata (GUP Magazine)
Dream-Like
"'Dream-like' has become shorthand to describe a whole slew of artistic output... Yet, for all the work that’s described as 'dream-like,' I’ve had very few dreams that actually looked like those photos."
(GUP Magazine, 2012)
(GUP Magazine, 2012)
The Desire to Keep
"Which is the greater loss: The loss of the photo I did not take, or the loss of the moment while wishing that I was taking a photo?"
(GUP Magazine, 2012)
(GUP Magazine, 2012)
On Ruin and Loss
"Ruin and loss are inevitable, and it’s not the worst thing that can happen."
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (GUP Magazine)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (GUP Magazine)
On Immortality
"Our entire waking lives, we can only know the contents of our own minds, our own bodies. We can never be certain of our existence, of our place in the world, until we see it reflected by others."
(GUP Magazine, 2011)
(GUP Magazine, 2011)