Sonny's Blues

"Keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness."

- James Baldwin

Every photograph is a certificate of presence. - Barthes

"The man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air ... more terrible because it has no words and triumphant too, for that same same reason. " James Baldwin

"Beauty in imperfection ... the internal world meets the outside world and takes shape. When my desire takes some kind of shape, it becomes a photograph. Photos: out of focus, rough, streaky, warped ... (person's daily perceptions) ... photograph the mysterious and unknown." Daido Moriyama