On printing, and why a screen isn't the end
A file is a promise. A print is the photograph keeping it. Some thoughts on finishing the work on paper.
I don’t think a photograph is finished until it’s printed. On a screen it’s light, and light flatters everything. On paper it has to stand on its own — the blacks have to hold, the grain has to sit right, the thing has to mean something at the size of a hand.
Printing also slows me down in the best way. You can’t make four hundred prints the way you can take four hundred frames. Choosing one forces a kind of honesty about the work.
Every commission I deliver includes a small print set. Not as an upsell — as the point.
