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In this video I'm going to bring back the metaphor again of 42. This number, ask explained in Douglass Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Calculated by a super computer that took 7.5 million years to arrive with the answer, 42 is indeed correct, but the problem is we don't know what the question is. I think if we look at photography in this same way we can start to see a new way of approaching our own work. Quite frankly - the answers are easy, we shoot a picture of a dog, we have a picture of a dog. But what are the questions that go into the photo? What are the questions you're asking yourself? What are you asking the viewer? This is the hard part, but its also where our work can take a turn from just being a snapshot. To back this up and illustrate my point I'm showing you the work of 4 well known, living photographers - Abelardo Morell, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tom Baril and Sabasti%atildeo Salgado. We'll look at some examples of how they've found some unique questions to the answers.
