Black and white photographers whose work I admire and return to — Edwin Smith, James Ravilious, Fay Godwin, Don McCullin, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Adrian Vila and Christine Wilson — and why I make a point of not looking at them too closely before picking up my own camera.

What separates a pretty picture from a photograph that truly matters? This piece explores intention, emotion, memory, and why the images we live with often say far more than the ones we simply scroll past.