The Why.

Grappling with Letting Go.

To be alive is to be in the business of “letting go.” One of our mind’s most important responsibilities is making sense of the past, the present and the future. 

• Letting go of the past we’ve imagined, its reality and the potential futures it could have driven.

• Letting go of the present we imagine, its reality, the pasts we’ve created and the futures it can drive.

• Letting go of the futures we imagine could be different if the past or present were different.

The meanings we ascribe to the pasts leading up to photos and the associated, potential futures can shift eternally. The permanency of the moment in which the image was captured is fixed. 

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Photographing people and their places forces a reckoning with letting go.

• It’s a regular reminder that letting go is a solo adventure. Life provides that intensity, independent of photography and the practice amplifies that intensity, if anything.

• But photography (and its sharing) provides as much if not more relief, than unrest it causes.

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Together they are reminders that how we make sense of the past, present and future are not isolated to the self and the required process of letting go is innately collective.