SCBWI
In truth, I have no idea what I'm doing. Writing a novel is a lot like falling in love. No one knows what they are doing" (Ann Basheres in SCBWI Bulletin, March/April 2007, p. 5).
Katherine Patterson, author of Bridge to Teribithia, quted Friedrich Nietzsche" "I am the only person who can tell my stories as truthfully and as beautifully as I can" (Ann Basheres in SCBWI Bulletin, March/April 2007, p. 5).
Emerging Photographer
"What does it take to be a great documentary photographer? For starters, the projects you pursue should be, first and foremost,personal. "There should be a deep caring for both the subject and the making of beautiful photographs," notes acclaimed documentary photographer Darcy Padilla. "A photograph should have certain honesty and personal conviction that resonates. To care is to take risks." Documentary photogrpahy is often times about telling stories no one lese wants to tell, or can tell."
(A Photo Editor's Insights by Patrick Witty in Emerging Photographer: The Documentary Issue, Fall 2011, p. 45)
"Absorb the work of others and deeply examine how they did what they did....Documentary photography chooses you, not the other way around. It's a calling hard to ignore. And ultimately, it's heart that matters. Be daring. Be genuine." (A Photo Editor's Insights by Patrick Witty in Emerging Photographer: The Documentary Issue, Fall 2011, p. 46)
The following quotes are excerpted from , Fall 2011 Emerging Photographer (The Documentary Issue. Do you find any correlations to the work you are doing as teacher practitioners as you look more closely within your classrooms and how you will portray and share this with others?
"The good photograph is not the object; the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be." Grotte, M. (Fall 2011). Emerging Photographer (The Documentary Issue), p. 37.
What does it take to be a great documentary photographer? "For starters, the projects you pursue should be, first and foremost, personal. "There should be a deep caring for both the subject and the making of beautiful photographs," notes acclaimed documentary photographer Darcy Padilla. "A photograph should have a certain honesty and personal conviction that resonates. To care is to take risks."
"Absorb the work of others and deeply examine how they did what they did."
"Documentary photography chooses you, not the other way around. It's a calling hard to ignore. And ultimately, it's heart that matters. Be daring. Be genuine. Anything less, and it will show."
Witty, P. (Fall 2011). A photo Editor's Insights. Emerging Photographer (The Documentary Issue), p. 45-46.
Advice Herman Klein gave to Mr. Castro, poet:
He told me never to rush when I am writing. If you don’t take time, it gets too turbulent. There will be too much foam. This is why I tell Anthony to write more slowly. I tell him, ‘Your mind is like a crowded room. Let your stories come quietly and calmly. There will be a time for every thought to make its own escape (Kozol, p. 242). He goes on: “I don’t like overcertainty. The dirt of doubt and ambiguity is where the ore is hidden” (p. 242).
Kozol, J. (1995). Amazing grace: Lives of children & conscience of a nation. New York: Crown Publishers.
WABI SABI
"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers" (Arthur Koestler in Diane Durston in Wabi Sabi: The art of everyday life, 2006, North Adam, MA: Storey Publishing, p. 77)
"Once you accept the fact that you are not perfect, then you develop some confidence." (Rosalynn Carter in Diane Durston in Wabi Sabi: The art of everyday life, 2006, North Adam, MA: Storey Publishing, p. 86)
"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you reaize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." (Lao Tse, in Diane Durston in Wabi Sabi: The art of everyday life, 2006, North Adam, MA: Storey Publishing, p. 113)
"Be sincere, be brief, be seated." (Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Diane Durston in Wabi Sabi: The art of everyday life, 2006, North Adam, MA: Storey Publishing, p. 198)
"You don't need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Martin Luther King, Jr