ESSAY: Peripheral Vision

Photography has won a long war to be considered a valid art form. The potential for photography as art is vast. Photography as a technology has remade the world; it is that powerful a medium. Any socio-cultural or aesthetic ruts are ours, not those of photography. In fact, photographic practices are metamorphic tools to transcend ruts, to sort out our present and our history, and to see our selves more clearly. Evermore media-driven and image-saturated, it is imperative that we become more responsible and conscious in our acts of making and disseminating imagery, and of the images themselves.