In Conversation: With Photography and Life, Joe Greer Takes the Long View

Greer thinks in terms of a fifty-year career and weighs every photograph on that scale: what matters isn't how it works now, it's how it will work thirty years from now, when it's looked at by someone who hasn't been born yet. That's why he doesn't chase trends, and why printed books matter so much to him, that's where the work actually ends up living, on someone's table at home instead of inside a phone. What stays with me from the India section is the hospitality: people see him walking by with a camera around his neck, come out of their houses and wave him in to see the photo of their grandfather hanging on the wall. Interview with Joe Greer, photographer. Ignant, 28 July 2023, by Anna Dorothea Ker.