Quote: Edward Steichen

"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."

Quotes: W. Eugene Smith

"Photography is a small voice. at best. but sometimes one photograph. or a group of them, can lure our senses into awareness.... Someone, or perhaps many, among us may be influenced to heed reason, to find a way to right what was wrong."

" Each time I pressed the shutter release, it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the pictures might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future. causing them caution and remembrance and realization."

"I have never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil."

"I can never photograph without love,...I create only when I have the spirit and spirituality of life that love gives me"

Leica Range-finder Tri-x Tests Continue

Went out shooting with a friend. I tried developing these films with the same dilution/time/temp as W. Eugene Smith did. The grain is noticeably smaller than the Rodinal developed negatives.

More New Sex Worker 2009 Photographs

Oew 33

Bla 21

Quote: Ralph Gibson

"A strong photograph is something that impels the viewer to bring a lot to it. The perception of the photograph becomes the creative act."

Quote: James Nachtwey Photojournalist

Why do you shoot what you shoot?

"I think the raising of people's consciousness is the first step toward creating public opinion and public opinion creates an impetus for change. It creates pressure on decision-makers, the powers that be, who make choices that effect the lives of thousands of people. Helping create the impetus for them to move in the right direction, through public opinion, is something worth doing."

New Sex Worker Series 2009 Photographs

Da 22 Male Freelance Sex Worker, Thailand 2009



Bla 21 Female Freelance Sex Worker, Thailand 2009

Jiji 28 Ladyboy Sex Worker, Thailand 2008

New 2003 Bargirl Series Photos

Finally got around to developing these Bargirl Series Photos from 2003.

Num 25

Nit 22

Naung 38

Excited

Been involved with photography for over 30 years now but the excitement continues to grow. Tonight I am working in the darkroom developing film and printing, my head full of photographs I want to make in the future, full of ideas. Photography is so exciting, so rewarding, fills me with so much purpose. There is nothing I would rather do with my life.