The Decisive Moment
By sean schmidt
11 May 2008
Last November I spent several months living in Asia. I had just graduated college and begun to take photography seriously. I left my family and friends in the states to make pictures that were "bigger than myself." Traveling alone gives a person a sense of poetry about themselves, and I was no exception. I wanted to bring home photos which had the Decisive element that the founders of photography got to first; something Weston or Doisneau. For nothing else, I wanted photographs that at least had the same sense of fleeting and romanticism I had about Asia, and what I had set out there to do. As always, the images will decide themselves.
