Artists often speak of the process of creating as entering a state where one is less aware of the material world and the passage of time – the creative process itself allowing the artist to experience a feeling of temporarily transcending everyday reality and entering a different and unique state of awareness.
This describes what I often experienced during my photographic exploration of the natural world – time seemingly suspended while framing a composition and tripping the shutter. Perhaps this observation by photographer Edouard Boubat reflects the same phenomenon but from the perspective of the viewer.
I think that the photos that we like were made
when the photographer knew how to disappear.
If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.
