If photography can so accurately describe shapes, surfaces, and perhaps most obviously, light, then how does it simultaneously capture our emotions too? It is our belief that this is where the true talent of a photographer is realized; in one’s innate ability to capture one or another’s feelings on light sensitive material.
An aspiring photographer can, without too much difficulty, find methods for improving his or her technique at capturing an abstracted physicality of the world. In other words, one can learn to record shapes, surfaces, and light, but what one may never learn is how to bring across poignant emotion in his or her photographs. To get to the point that a photographer is making emotional photographs with a clear unique voice, one must embark on a journey of exploration and understanding of the medium while maintaining a nearly implausible balance of experimentation and control.
It is with a similar approach that we bring you, the talented photographer, pause, to begin, a photographically driven publication with an emphasis on the process of art-making/working/living/seeing/being. For us, it is equally important to meet you and your photographs as we create and tailor this publication to the experience we have together.
A limited edition hardbound book, pause, to begin is a way of looking at photography today. This is the beginning of a publication initiated by us, Ethan Aaro Jones and David Jonathan Wright, two photographers and friends wanting to bring attention to areas of significance, as we see it, in photography. Through this publication we aim to publish selected photographers through an online application process, and articulate both your and our ideas on the medium. With our energy and passion we will visit the chosen finalists by traveling thousands of miles in order to experience the process of looking at photographs together.
Pause, to begin will be released in November 2008 at a gallery reception for the masses to experience the work displayed in the publication and to revisit the journey of making pause, to begin.