getting closer to a day in our life

© Larry Towell, 2000, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Courtesy of Photo-London

The photographs being shown at the current world-photo exhibition in London may signal the point in time at which even the most isolated events in far-off places can be experienced in near-real-time by anyone who tunes in to a web broadcast of current news (or fashion or cultural fetish). The medium of photography, I think, is just now beginning to show its potential as a universal means of communication -- in all of its wonderful and various modes of sincerity, cynicysm, humanity, horror, and celebration of bizarre behavior. Have you taken a photograph this week? Why? Or why not?