Conclusion

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Antarctica, 2011.

In the end, if there’s truth to the notion that the journey is at least as important as the destination—and I think there is—then how and why we arrive at the final photographs we create matters a great deal. It matters not only for the obvious reason that it determines what those photographs look like, and what they say, but because this process changes us. I think the great gift of photography is that it teaches us to see the world differently, and in trying to show the world that different view, we create new work that leads us to see differently again. When we see differently, we change the how and why that is ...

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