"Time it was and what a time it was it was,
A time of innocence a time of confidences.
Long ago it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you"
Simon&Garfunkel sang these words in "Bookends"

To have memories that do not disappear as time passes, I need photographs. To take away with me forever the experience of sites, moments, sensations, odours, the photographic image freezes those moments, those experiences. I have the certainty that that place I went will come back home with me. The photograph is always an instant; even if I had to wait half an hour to construct it, waiting for the cloud blocking the sun to disappear and creating the right shade. I remember the time I was at Berlinische Galerie.