To me, photography is a distortion of time and space. Photographers intervene in every photo they make whether by selecting, omitting, enhancing and suppressing elements in the images. And the stillness of a photograph is also unnatural and startling to the viewers.

Despite that, photography has a connection to reality as we can see when certain photographs engender intense or effusive responses from viewers. By this polar nature, photographs are philosophical because they appear natural but unnatural.

"A picture is what it is" - William Eggleston