It is comforting to learn that after many years of magazine photography people like to hang my pictures on their walls. One has immediate contact with a photograph. In contrast, a painting is more mysterious and may take years to understand. Photographs, at least mine, are clear and factual in their message. Even though I had often thought that I would get tired of photographs on the wall - I don`t. We choose certain photographs to look at over and over again because of their relationship to our life. Often in them there are loved ones that we want to look at. Sometimes certain occurrences in our past are so important to us that we repeatedly want to look at them. It is the brilliant color of the photographs that makes my walls look like stained-glass church windows and turns my studio into a more religious place. For a photograph represents LIFE, life well noticed. The more we conceptualize on life, realizing how much harmony prevails, the more we can understand that the media world we live in concentrates on making us afraid an angry. I have tried to offset this media world with my work: pointing out that we love and are loved.
-Will McBride
