Conversation with John Gossage (Carley)

In the last few weeks, we've had multiple discussions about how photographs can hold as much information, or as big of a story, as a novel. In the interview with John Gossage, he talks about how each photo changes the way the viewer perceives the next photo in his book The Pond, in the same way that one page in a novel will change the story on subsequent pages. One picture can tell us a lot, but when it's put into a series or collection, that photo becomes part of an even bigger picture, no pun intended. As we are beginning our large photo project, I think the purpose of showing the video was to get us thinking about not only the story one image can tell, but how important it is to think about how photos interact with and compliment each other in a series.