I believe that the great photographers are visual poets, seeing a different layer of reality and reporting their findings, on celluloid, to everyone. They don't just see with acuity, or have the patience to observe carefully: they skillfully capture the world in a way that translates their perception (meaning not just the spatial and sensory impressions that the world makes on them, but even the profound ideas that deep contemplation generates). They use a medium, the camera and its lenses, and all their associated tools, as technical means to achieve a representation of the world imbued with a personal touch, be it a distortion, an emphasis, a relation, a statement, something else that is the photographer's intent and binds all the elements in the photograph together. A photograph crafted with a vision is an actual creation - as opposed to the mere documentary capture of what physically exists. If it also meets certain aesthetic standards (which are defined differently in different places), that photograph is also an artwork.

I live my life with the ambition to master this craft so as to harness my own visions, always more faithfully and beautifully, and share them with you.