Photography to me is not only a field, or a subject; it’s integral with my life. I’ll explain with a little analogy. I was interested in an interview on PBS with a famous violinist who described his life like this: “I get up in the morning and I’m thinking about music. I go for a little walk and I’m thinking of compositions. I come back and write about music. In the afternoon I go practice for a performance, and then, there is an evening performance. After the performance, friends and I got together and we play music.” The interviewer implied, “God, what a narrow, boring life.” The violinist said, “Yes, initially that was true. I was so focused and committed to my music but an interesting thing happened. I went through the little hole in the hourglass and I came out the other side, and now everything that I do in music connects to every other aspect of the human condition.” To myself I said, “God, I don’t know anything about music, but photography is just like that with me.”

Bill Jay
An Interview with Bill Jay by Darwin Marble
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