Timothy Syrota

In my early twenties I wrote a short story the gist of which was that I see better when I  am looking through a camera viewfinder and that my voice is clearer when I have a pen in my hand and a piece of paper in front of me. Three decades on and I can still see a truth in this: cameras still bring into sharp focus my visual attention regarding what is around me. Similarly pens, or more aptly now, keyboards, continue to focus my words and my thought processes. Maybe this is why I continue to derive such fulfilment from writing, photography and film making: they give me super senses (haha). But less esoteric reasoning might be an ongoing respect for the process and its challenges combined with a continuing ability to surprise myself when a body of work comes together well. And then there is also what I suspect will be a never ending interest in people, situations, and places which take me beyond what is normal in the day-to-day. Whatever the reasoning, I chose my career because of a fundamental love of all that it entails. This has never changed.