LittlePurpleCow Productions

"Photography is in essence a scientifically accurate process for the reproduction of objective appearances, a stationary magic that fixes a second from time's passage on a single plane. Its greatest service is documentary." – Lincoln Kirstein, Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, December 1933

I've read this phrase over and over again. It's the first collection of words that preceeds the masterful black and white images of John Loengard in "As I See It." I've been an artist all my life, yet it took forty years worth of moments to really prepare me to see as a photographer. To open up my heart and mind wide enough to fully embrace the significance of human interaction, absent of my involvement. Nothing thrills me more than documenting the magic of life.

Read the story behind this image made at Shepherds Junior School in Arusha, Tanzania.