{Black & White}

There are many ways to destroy each other, but we make our choice. 

It’s the slowest way, which studies the destruction step by step as it occurs and shrouds it in cloud. 

We are naked in bed, for instance, when one of us says, I am your favorite and you are my favorite, so our shadows will always run from each other. 

We prefer to drape our undoing in tender nonsense.

I hang velvet curtains over your eyelids, and you pull the weeds from my tongue.

One thing is certain: We are both so practiced at playing the victim that even a chrysanthemum could slice through our skin. 

{Intimate Portraits}

Two photographers, two sets of intimate portraits, two quotes on artistic perspective.

Noa Azouley

"I followed my intuition because it’s never failed me, even when, especially when, it’s a risk. I approach my art in the same way: I use my intuition. In fact, I would never be where I am today if it weren’t for the risks I took, the finances I sacrificed, the struggles I had, the extreme ups and downs, and the commitment to follow my gut as often as possible, always knowing that everything would work out somehow if I trusted it." 

Alfred Cheney Johnston 

"I just work in my own way . . . I don't imitate the methods of anyone else. And I break all the laws of photography whenever I see fit...why insist on having a shadow here and a high light there, simply because books have been written saying that you must?

Sources:

http://www.featherlove.com/blog/

http://www.transversealchemy.com/