"It’s as though there’s a wonderful secret in a certain place and I can capture it. Only I can do it at this moment, only this moment and only me..." Walker Evans. This often quoted line from Walker Evans has for better or worse guided my work for over thirty years. Like Evans, I’ve always considered myself a documentary photographer, and documentary photographers spend a lot of frames in their quest for one that illustrates the "truth" about the subject at hand. Timing is everything to the documentarian. The still camera’s singular advantage is its ability to record a significant intersection of time and place. What matters most to the success of the image is the moment the shutter is released. What matters most historically is the relevance of that moment.

Stewart Harvey