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Every photograph is a small confrontation with time and mortality. To actually press the shutter button is to admit that that moment is gone forever. In the instant the shutter closes, the present becomes the past. What we capture is not the moment itself, but the trace of it - a quiet acknowledgment that life is always moving forward, that everything we see is already slipping away.

There’s something grounding in using a camera shaped by that same awareness. I remember when I was younger, learning about the Apollo missions and seeing those images of astronauts on the moon. Even back then, without fully understanding why, it felt significant… that the moments furthest away from us, both in space and in time, captured with such clarity and intention.

I always like medium format camera because it has a different rhythm. The files hold more depth, more subtle transitions of light, not in an obvious way, but in how gently tones fall into each other. Larger sensor sees the world differently: subjects exist within their environment, with a sense of air around them. 

It's slowed my photographing process - in a good way.

Photography is not simply about preserving beauty or documenting reality. It is a dialogue with impermanence. Each image reminds us that the visible world - the light on a face, the wind through trees, the gesture of a hand - exists only briefly before dissolving back into time. The photograph becomes evidence that something was once here, even though it can never truly be returned to.

But photography also reveals something else: the space between what is visible and what is felt. The camera records surfaces, but the photographer is chasing something deeper - memory, longing, imagination. We photograph not only what we see, but what we fear losing. The image becomes a bridge between the external world and the inner one, between reality and the meanings we attach to it.

In this sense, photography teaches a quiet philosophy of living. To photograph consciously is to understand that every moment matters precisely because it will disappear. The act of framing a scene forces us to pay attention: to light, to presence, to the fragile beauty of the ordinary. It asks us to acknowledge time instead of ignoring it.

And this is where photography becomes strangely liberating. When we truly accept that every image is also a small farewell - that every captured moment is already gone - we stop trying to hold on so tightly. Instead, we begin to witness. We learn to appreciate things while they are still here.

Photography becomes a practice of acceptance. The camera trains us to recognize endings everywhere: in sunsets, in aging faces, in places that will someday change or vanish. Yet rather than making life feel tragic, this awareness deepens it. It sharpens perception and gratitude.

So when we accept the truth hidden in photography - that every image is a reminder of time passing and of our own eventual absence - something unexpected happens. We stop photographing in order to defeat time, and instead we photograph to honor it.

And in learning to honor time, we begin to live more fully. Because we have already made peace with the fact that everything, including ourself, will one day disappear.