"i am always looking outside, trying to look inside, trying to say something that is true. but maybe nothing is really true. except what's out there. and what's out there is constantly changing."
- robert frank
"it seems positively unnatural to travel for pleasure without taking a camera along."
- susan sontag, on photography, 1973
"the lure of photographs, their hold on us, is that they offer at one and the same time a connoisseur's relation to the world and a promiscuous acceptance of the world."
- susan sontag, on photography, 1973
"i photograph to find out what something will look like photographed."
- garry winogrand
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my work has been seen:
Diptychs - East Bay Photo Collective Members’ Exhibition, December 2025 - January 2026
Photoworks SF Exhibit #4
all images copyright © david bayless 2026