Some people feel that intensity of perception is about seeing something as if for the first time. Don Springer feels life should be viewed as if you're seeing it for the last time. I'm with Don on this one.
  
   If photography serves reality, why be naive? A photographer's encounter with experience is to acknowledge the subject before them. The photograph seals that moment past.

   It's a funny thing, though, if your subject doesn't look out, you can't look in. Don can look in to his subjects even when they don't realize they are looking out.

   For Don the photograph is his last act. He is happy, and so am I, that he repeats that recognition over and over again.

   --Paul McGuirk   www.pmphoto.com     (please visit Paul's site for a visual treat, he is a great image maker....thanks....don)


Selected Collections:

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Wichita art Museum, Kansas
Harvard University
Yale University
Berkley University
University of Pennsylvania
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
Free Library of Philadelphia
Settlement School of Music
The Philadelphia Orchestra
The Pennsylvania Ballet
Network For New Music
Fort Smith Art Center
Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
American Institute of Architechts, Phila. Chapter
The Edmund Bacon Collection
Department of Recreation, City of Philadelphia
Working Fund for Artists with HIV/AIDS, Phila. Pa
Many private collections....(Staying Private)


I thank Ding McNulty (curator Prints and Photographs, Phila. Museum of Art) for encouraging me as a young man to keep making photographs......may Mother Light shine on your soul for eternity.