Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.
The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a banal sense, all photographs on the Web are orphans ready to be claimed.
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
Your image is your currency in this world.
In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.
A good marriage. . . is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
Sometimes it's good to be not so popular.
You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.