Quantum
HEALTH
Issue 10 March 2011
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I hope our readers in the US will be involved! Okay, switching gears yet again... Just about everybody these days has a cell phone
with a camera or video, so everyone can be photographer. On the nightly news there is amateur video–when there are disasters, or recently from Egypt and the protests there. Do you have any thoughts about how so many of us are becoming almost visual artists and about the way we can best use technology to connect with each other in healing and positive ways?
A good example of that is in Australia, where they have been having floods. There is tons and tons and tons of amateur footage. In the past during an event there were only memories, sometimes people would write it down and some would be lucky to get photos of it. So this is a relatively new thing in terms of our life span, and I think photography is really, really basically opening up the eyes of the human race and showing us... it’s basically like exploding our world, so we can see anywhere, everywhere. As an artist, I think, photography is a tool I use to express myself, and not everyone with a mobile telephone camera can do that. So I guess in a sense my job is still worth something, because it’s not what you do but how you see it! Professional photographers can have a different view.
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Yet, this mobile technology gives everyone a voice, doesn’t it? We can see the world in an inter- connected way.
Yes, absolutely. I think it’s a reason why our world is exploding into this amazing interconnectedness that is happening at the moment, and it’s going to continue for a while longer, because of the Internet and other things. It gives us so much more comprehension, really. So I think it’s a great thing. But it doesn’t mean that the guy on the corner can be at the scene of an accident or something and can really be a photographer– find the essence of that thing or event. What’s happening might look really boring to him at that time, but a photographer’s job is to go in and try to find something special in any situation.
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In your book you describe finding that essence of a thing or event. You describe synchronicities and reveal that an inner voice often
leads you to take the best shot. It’s almost as if you are being guided in your career, and these intuitive hunches help you get the great shot, to capture something really special. Would you discuss that?
I guess my book was about trying to answer that question about creative insight to myself and in that process I was satisfied with the answers that came to me through the discoveries. Because I am basically made up of the same material as Earth is made up of, I am sort of a part of it. I feel like my body is made up of teensy weensy tiny little cells, and when I say ‘Scratch my head’, if all the cells work together, they scratch my head for me. In that sense, I sort of feel like I’m a cell of the world, of Earth, I am connected to it all. I also use the ‘silence’. The more I use the silence–to take time to just be in nature–it’s almost like I am a film projector, like my mind becomes clearer. So for me it is the connection to the universe, in a way that I can’t really explain, that feeds creativity. It’s like the more I got into it, the more it opened itself up to me. People and things were just falling in front of me that were helping me along my way. And it’s a special magic. I just love it. Especially when I need to take a photo of someone or something and I feel as if I am being led along by something else. I have to choose to be in it, to be part of it, if I want to be in it. I love being in the forest. I live next to a forest and I’m in it every single day. I don’t meditate or do anything special, but I become aware of my breath. So, many times a day I stop and just focus on my breath because in the past I did a Vipassana retreat and the breath is like a little key or keyhole. I’m a believer that light, the sun, is healing and a creative force and healing force. But it can be anything, your heartbeat, footsteps. It’s very simple. Just to reset the mind.
Q 12 Quantum Health
Can you share a time or two when you fell into the zone and got a great shot, one that caught the essence of the subject?
Wow, they’re sort of all like that! Well, there is the shot of the black guy in the ocean. It was a
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