The Importance of Photographing the Ordinary

I like Stella Johnson. Whenever I was sent out to photograph a groundbreaking, you would get a bunch of people in suits with shovels standing there in a line and they would wait for the cameras to shoot. And so I would shoot that and use that because we can see where you are. But you don't have to be posed for my camera to tell the story. The story is you're here, you're celebrating. That's the photograph. We all have time on our side to make our photographs better. Make great photographs today. Go find strong stories. Tell worthwhile stories in your pictures. But time will add more. Just don't lose them.

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