i’m on my third week of “Seeing Through Photographs” provided by The Museum of Modern Art on coursera.org. After a slow start due to more reading and fewer videos and more work keeping me from said elective online course, i am finally caught up and starting lesson 3: Documentary Photography. so far, this lesson is my favorite because it underscores the “production” that goes into a photograph by the photographer and the choices in subject matter, color, framing, and public sharing that the photographer makes every single time s/he presses the shutter button.

the lesson resonates with me because, although i take photos for many reasons, i take photos to document the moments of life that will never happen again because recreating those moments, as far as i know, would be physically impossible. my approach to the world — my predilections, my organizational habits, my photography, and the way i conduct myself as a web developer — is to “curate the world one pixel at a time” and to record those moments for posterity. i admit it: i am a life hoarder.