Painting is additive.
The canvas is empty.
The painter keeps adding more and more.

Photography is subtractive.
Reality is overcrowded.
The photographer keeps removing more and more from the image until the subject stands at the center.

• Objects. Gone.
• Subjects. Stay.
• Colors. Gone.
• Context. A little.
• Sharpness. Halfway.

Am Abgrund:
There was litter in the lower left corner.
I changed the framing.
I waited until these two people were standing by the tree.
I waited.
Color had nothing to add here.
Away with it.

Photography is choosing.
Every photographer removes something.
Consciously or unconsciously.
What remains becomes the photograph.

Choice is always interpretation.
And isn't interpretation always subjective?
Can there be objective photographs?