In Conversation: With Photography and Life, Joe Greer Takes the Long View

Joe Greer, one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary photography as well as one of my favourite photographers (though that counts for little), talks in this interview about the time horizons of his own career and explains how his approach is the long game.

He thinks about a career over a fifty-year horizon and judges every one of his photographs on that scale. What matters, in his view, is not what his images can mean today but how much they will mean in thirty years. That is what leads him to deliberately avoid chasing trends and to care so much about printed books, which he sees as the ultimate purpose of photography.

Interview with Joe Greer, photographer. Ignant, 28 July 2023, by Anna Dorothea Ker.