„Autumnal corn #5810”

Sometimes I make documentary images, but often I employ interpretive or impressionistic techniques when a literal rendering seems insufficient to express what I’m feeling. In either case my approach is always a very personal one. When some part of the natural world functions as a symbol, or as a metaphor, or as a vehicle for my emotional life and, in the deeper sense, my spiritual life, I endeavor to show it in the images I make. And I’m often conscious of my deeply held belief that every photograph is the description of a meeting between the subject matter and the photographer, and that the role of the one is not necessarily more significant that of the other.

(Freeman Patterson in
“Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image”)

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