PHOTOGRAPHY

The art of halting time without stopping its motion. It takes the torrent of experience and pins a fragment to the page of memory, as witness and proof. A photograph is less about what is seen than what refuses to vanish; the shimmer that insists on staying.

It is a practice of framing, of saying this and not that, of trusting that one angle, one slant of light, can contain something larger than itself. The camera is both mirror and sieve: it reflects the world and filters it, catching the grains that would otherwise slip away unseen.

To call photography mere record is to misunderstand its force. It does not only preserve; it transforms. The shutter is an act of alchemy: shadows become story, faces become myth, the fleeting becomes permanent enough to be carried forward.

Perhaps what photography asks of us is simple but rare: to look long enough, to honor the ordinary until it gleams, to admit that even the smallest instant has the weight of eternity if we choose to hold it.