“ What’s great about looking at your work is the emotion comes back. The emotion comes back. The rhythm of what you were photographing comes back. It’s almost like a musical score. You can see where I may have quit too soon, or stayed too long. Or was bored and took a lot of pictures of nothing because I wanted to put film through the camera. All kinds of things are working when you’re looking at the contact sheet. Also, you see old girlfriends and friends and your children going up and my hairline receding. – Bruce Davidson”

©Barbara Van Shaik

©Hin Chua

©Jackson Eaton

©Tiffany Jones

©Mark Hinderliter

“After following the crowd for a while, I’d then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me. – Eilliot Erwitt”

©James Turnley

©David Gibson

©Rafa Alcacer

©Salva López

©Martijn Savenije

Photographs on the Brain Issue #1 is available through MagCloud. You can follow the pool on Flickr.  For daily LPV aggregation, Tumblr is the place.

“ When you realize that you have been with these women and you have left them and broken their hearts — and look, let’s be real here. I don’t own an apartment. I don’t own a house. I don’t own a car. I don’t have any stocks and bonds. All I own are my cameras. That’s it. And some cowboy boots. If you want to be a success financially, please don’t follow this path. ” – Stanley Greene

©Camilo Delgado Castilla

©Lukasz Wierzbowski

©Kurt Manley

©Brad McMurray

©Simon Kossoff

“But a guy devoting his creative life to art photography? With no immediate recognition or reward? No one has the foggiest clue how to approach that. They know I carry a camera. On some level they know I’m involved in that life, consumed even. But my daily routine and activities are beyond comprehension, beyond curiosity even. I may as well be painting rocks in the driveway or tossing grass seed from an overpass. Just as productive. What’s there to talk about?” – Blake Andrews

©Stevie Dacanay

©Mark Alor Powell

©Luis Torres

©Paul Russell

©Pierre Wayser

“Photography, and our understanding of it, has spread from a centre; it has, by infusion, penetrated our consciousness. Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.” – John Szarkowski

Photographs on the Brain Issue #1 is available through MagCloud. You can follow the pool on Flickr.  For daily LPV aggregation, Tumblr is the place.

“Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.” – David Foster Wallace

©Mike Stacey