Insight from Salgado. Pouring ketchup. And a little eye candy.

Fellow grad student Jim Korpi shares this quote from Salgado he found and I love. Looks like he finally added a RSS feed too. Thank you sir!

A person who creates something, he has a way to do it, he has not two ways to do it. As a writer when he writes — he has his style, he write in a way, he don’t write in two ways: one ugly for the ugly people and beautiful for the beautiful people. Photography is the same, no? It’s not that I went to the poor places of the planet and tried to make them beautiful. I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It’s very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it’s there and it’s not there. But in this fraction of a second [he snaps his fingers] comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love — all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there. I speak like this, I don’t speak in another way. No? You can put the question why I went there, but if I am there and I make the picture, I can make only this kind of picture, I cannot do two different kind of pictures.

You can read more of the interview at the LA Weekly site entitled: Sebastião Salgado’s Search for the Pristine.

I didn’t know there was a right way to pour ketchup? That’s right there’s a better way than using a knife to get that bottle started. This might be a life changer for some.

Thanks to Miguel Garcia-Guzman’s blog Exposure Compensation I came across the work of Kalpesh Lathigra. I especially enjoyed the Lost in Wilderness series.

Lost in the Wilderness by Kalpesh Lathigra

I don’t anyone who doesn’t enjoy the work of Trent Parke and recently I stumbled across some work I haven’t seen before on the Stills Gallery website. Also check out the work of Narelle Autio on the site.

Trent Parke