Good Pictures, Bad Timing – NYTimes.com

Good Pictures, Bad Timing

When a legendary curator chided Will Brown to find his way as a photographer, he set aside images he had made of his Philadelphia neighborhood. Today, those photos attest to the changes in the area.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/good-pictures-bad-timing/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

“He said: ‘You should find your own way of photographing. Your own voice. These look like someone else’s voice.’ That was very discouraging,” Mr. Brown said. So he put the pictures in a box and built a career photographing other people’s artwork.