>>3653594A very difficult thing to remember is that whatever you find interesting in the world is usually not that interesting as an object by itself, but is made interesting in large part due to its surroundings. A lot of photographers have an impulse yo get rid of dead space, but the whole art of photographing things is to know how much space to include. Consider it this way--the photogrpah is extremely particular. Whatever it shows is not merely a vase or a person or a building. It does not give us the idealized or the general. Rather, it renders that particular vase, that particular building, that particular person in that particular place at that particular time. When we go about the world, often what strikes us and makes us think something is worth photographing is not merely the object, but the subject--the entire field of reality of that particular thing in that place and that time. If we want our photos to be successful, we have to aim to capture all the particulars that make it visually compelling. No one knows what's outside the frame except for us. If we want people to experience what we experienced, we often have to include more than we think of the surrounding space and time.
