Joel Meyerowitz on Visual Storytelling

“My interest is not in the singular thing but photographing the relationship between things.”

Taking My Time photographer Joel Meyerowitz describes how he searches for ephemeral connections between things around him - then puts them in the frame.

When you put the frame up to your eye, the world continues outside the frame. So what you put in and what you leave out are what determines the meaning or potential of your photograph. But you must continue to keep in mind that there's plenty of stuff going on off-stage and [think about] what bearing the rest of the stuff off-stage have...