Widarto Adi

“the only thing in which I have been actually thorough has been in being thoroughly unprepared. Alfred Stieglitz”
― Anonymous

“Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see. Yet it usually represents aesthetic and theoretical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can access.”
― Lucy Soutter, Why Art Photography?

“Genre, then, as a means of study is a way we can examine and discuss the elements and functions of a type of practice. This work of identifying the features and characteristics is theoretical in one sense and critical in being able to understand how it works.”
― David Bate, Photography: The Key Concepts

“But the most important information that needed to be conveyed was about humans, not about lions and bison. Our language evolved as a way of gossiping.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind