Rauschenberg I don't crop. Photography is like diamond cutting. If you miss you miss. There's no difference with painting. If you don't cut you have to accept the whole image. You wait until life is in the frame, then you have full permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.
Sayag You don't miss very often, from looking at the contact sheets.
Rauschenberg It's because I wait; I wait until it's there again. Whatever is there is a truth, but a truth you have to believe in. What you see in front of you is a fact. You click when you believe it's the truth. The information is waiting to become in essence a concentration, concentrated so clearly that it can be projected back into real life, into your recognition. It could be any size."
- Robert Rauschenberg and Alain Sayag, extract from interview, in Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981- Reprinted in Chance, Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, 2010
This interview was on my mind when I shot this photographs today.
Location between Liverpool street and Old Street, London
Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
Photographs where not digitally manipulated.
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