3 Existential Questions

1) What is personal identity?

2) What is truth?

3) What is love?

Put forward by Cervantes in "Don Quixote", laying the foundation for every novel that would come after him. They may seem obvious questions to us nowadays, but in a time period where existential questions were answered for you by the establishment (i.e. the Church), someone had the courage to put the questions into the hands of an individual.

Today, it almost goes without saying that answering these questions motivates our actions, unconsciously or otherwise.  In some form or another, life itself is a struggle to put an answer on the other side of these question marks. Whether they are cliches or seemingly obvious, they are fundamental to being a human and must be acknowledged when addressing issues revolving around human nature and existence.



A photographic self-portrait asks all three questions.

A first date between two people is the beginnings of a struggle to answer the third.

The second is always changing, recreating itself, asking the other two within itself and, thus, being the most difficult (impossible) to answer. A photograph is not truth; it only searches for it.

Every photograph could be seen as attempting to answer one of these questions. Every photograph. To photograph is to ask an existential question.