Tech data: Canon EOS 5D, Canon EF 17-40 mm f/4 L, f/7.1, 1/400, ISO 100 - Processed with Alien Skin Exposure 2.After many years as an amateur photographer, I am increasingly convinced that “our work” is not simply to take pictures but most of all to pick and choose, eventually a matter of choices.
The photographer choose what, when and where to photograph: from our world (potentially infinite) you select a rectangle, a square, a portion of the field and cut it with the viewfinder, you freeze time in a specific moment, "the decisive moment" and you take back all on a two-dimensional paper surface or light (the screen). But also from a technical point of view (the choice of camera, lens focal length, since the aperture, from color to b/w, from analogue to digital, from white balance, to jpg or raw) all photography is an exercise in selection and choice of options. All of this just to say that photography exercise our right to freedom, increase our ability of selection and, most important, allow to make our choices visibile to the world.
