Human photography essay

DANGER PHILOSOPHY

THE BEST LIFE IS THE MAXIMALLY DANGEROUS LIFE (WITHOUT DYING).

WHEN STUDYING THE WORD ‘DANGER‘, I came across the notion of ‘damage’ [damnum in Latin]. The basic notion of danger is this:

We are afraid of getting damaged or killed.

Related is a word ‘demh‘, which means to tame, domesticate.

So what if we could TAME danger, and transform danger into our little hunting-pet, just how we have domesticated wolves and turned them into hunting dogs? Or perhaps how we tamed eagles and turned them into our hunting mates?

ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.