Ken Pizzo

I can’t remember who said it or when but it’s along the lines that the most important part of any photograph is what’s not in the photograph. There are so many ways in which we say “no” in photography, constantly editing down what is around us. A photograph doesn’t start with a blank canvas, but it does start with a full palette. In some form or another what appears in that image existed in the real world in front of a lens, reality is quoted and used out of context.  Everything that does not appear within the frame, everything you can think of, was told “no.”  Now you’re given these four edges and what fits between them, left to wonder about the world that lies just beyond them.