I started as a young... quite young boy... and I was fascinated... by the camera... and by... the idea that you can... make pictures... it can produce pictures... and from that... it became an art form... it became... a... something which I had to do... and it became... the camera... became... much more... and... I was able to... produce images which before I couldn't do... and that is what gave me the opportunity of doing what I wanted to do... it enabled me to express something... which I wasn't able to express before... which I was not capable of expressing before... I now found a medium of doing that... and that was my excitement... I moved away from being completely dominated by the camera... I tried to express myself... Yes... it took a while but once I got the beginnings of it... I wouldn't let go... I held on to it hopefully. I suppose there must be something else... my ideas about that were... to produce images I could believe in... images that really meant something... and once I was able to do that in a very amateur way... I felt that I was achieving what I set out to do... I took a while but hopefully I now am doing that... because without that you haven't got anything... and it is your own interpretation which is there... I must use the word again... to produce... the image which you want to get across... whether you succeed or not I don't know... that's what I tried to do... You see it in front of you and say... God this is it... it doesn't always work... but.. but... there are moments when it does and that is what you are trying to get... what you're trying to achieve... Like all births it's difficult... it's hard... but if it works you feel you have achieved something that you set out to do... that's what I was trying to do... I don't know whether I have but that's what I was trying to do... that's what I was trying to achieve. I dabbled... with a bit of painting... I'm no good... I felt my only hope of expressing what I wanted to do was this... the camera was my hope... whether I achieved it or not I don't know... it was what I aimed to do... to use that art form to show what I wanted to do... It took a long time... I still don't know whether I have achieved it... I endeavoured to achieve it... and if I got somewhere near it I felt I have achieved what I set out to do...
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