Photographing Expresses Human Desire To Preserve Passing

In Poland A Man Must Be One Thing: White Or Black, Here Or There, With Us Or Against Us -- Clearly, Openly, Without Hesitations. . . . We Lack The Liberal, Democratic Tradition Rich In All Its Gradations. We Have Instead The Tradition Of Struggle: The Extreme Situation, The Final Gesture.

I'm Trying To Put More Elements Of The Essay Into My Writing.

A Journey, After All, Neither Begins In The Instant We Set Out, Nor Ends When We Have Reached Our Door Step Once Again. It Starts Much Earlier And Is Really Never Over, Because The Film Of Memory Continues Running On Inside Of Us Long After We Have Come To A Physical Standstill. Indeed, There Exists Something Like A Contagion Of Travel, And The Disease Is Essentially Incurable.

In Reference To Persepolis And All Palaces, Cities And Temples Of The Past: Could These Wonders Have Come Into Being Without That Suffering? Without The Overseer's Whip, The Slave's Fear, The Ruler's Vanity? Was Not The Monumentality Of Past Epochs Created By That Which Is Negative And Evil In Man?

My Writing Is A Combination Of Three Elements. The First Is Travel: Not Travel Like A Tourist, But Travel As Exploration. The Second Is Reading Literature On The Subject. The Third Is Reflection.