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Why Images Matter: A Life Philosophy

Why Images Matter: A Life Philosophy

My love of photography is not abstract. It's grounded in The Real.

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Apr 27, 2024
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“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.”
~William Eggleston

Months ago, I offered a confession: “I’m tired of ideas.”

There was more to that story, and the more is this: I beside a church narcissistic pastor who “played with ideas.” Most were pseudo-intellectual. Many related to men and women working together in ministry. Some of those ideas were innocuous, run of the mill, even—ideas about “third spaces,” the crucifixion, what it means to build community. Some of those ideas were steaming piles of manure.

Among the manure ideas: men and women working together in ministry shouldn’t deny attraction between each other. They reckon with those attractions, name them, and deal with them. But that wasn’t far enough. Co-workers, he said, shouldn’t deny the presence of erotic love between one another—his words, not mine—because in denying the possibility of erotic love what other kinds of love are being cut off?

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