What does experience let you see?
A camera can record what is in front of it, but it cannot explain why a photographer noticed that moment in the first place. Experience is part of photographic knowledge, but it is not the same as certainty.
A camera can record what is in front of it, but it cannot explain why a photographer noticed that moment in the first place. Experience is part of photographic knowledge, but it is not the same as certainty.
Photography does not simply show us what matters. It helps decide what matters. When Black suffering repeatedly becomes the image that wins attention, what has photography learned to recognise as significant?