Tepoztlán, Mexico 1972

Ed Grazda made this photograph, Tepoztlán, Mexico, using traditional black and white photography. You know, with photography, you’re always trying to make order out of chaos. I wonder what it was like to be Grazda here, pointing his camera at this space with its TV on top of a fridge, at the mirror reflecting a man, who’s also pointing a camera. Is that a woman on a stool? Maybe the photographer’s assistant? I notice these zigzags drawn on the wall. Like the flash of a camera. Or maybe lightning striking... He’s interested in what the camera can do, what it can capture. In how to create a painting-like composition through the lens. It’s like he’s asking us to look at how we see the world. And he’s saying that one way is to make photographs that are, in the end, also about photography, about the person behind the camera, and how we capture a moment in time.