Think first, then shoot — or shoot first, then think? An essay on photography's two modes, and the moment two little girls turned my camera around.

Why does blur read as memory? "In the commercial world this photograph would never pass. Out of focus, shutter too slow — almost nothing left sharp anywhere in the frame. And yet, somehow it feels more true than a sharp version would. I still don't fully understand why blur reads as memory, and clarity reads as fact. But it does, doesn't it?" 這張照片，在 commercial 的世界裡是絕對不合格的——沒有對焦，快門不夠快，幾乎沒有留下任何清晰之處。但不知為何，它反而比清晰的版本更顯真實。 我至今仍不太明白，為什麼模糊會被讀成記憶，而清晰會被讀成事實——但它確實如此，不是嗎? Maybe because m