My images are about photographs which we don't normally think of as pictures but rather photographs that refuse to disclose fully the images they contain. My concern is with photographs that withhold at a time when photography inundates us with pictures that disclose so much, and when surely nothing is now left unseen or unknown. Alvin Coburn puts it well "Why, I ask you earnestly, need we go on making commonplace little exposures…?" My hope is that much of what you have assumed about photography and what it might disclose is wrong. My tendency is to call this work abstract photography in the sense of being free of representational qualities, but I would rather call it "unconstrained seeing", a vision of things that have not yet been seen; an undisclosed photography rather than abstract photography. I see photography as a looking with, rather than a looking at or a looking through. My objective with these photographs is not the depiction of the outside world but rather the construction of the world without a past or a future, brought together with an inner impression, a subjective urge between seeing and knowing. These photographs are not confirmed by a consensual visual reality but the interplay between me as the photographer and you as the viewer. David F Schuster, 2009
