I named my photography blog ‘Time Machine’ for a reason. In rather sad circumstances, British photographer Lee Jeffries eloquently sums up what photography is and why it matters. RIP “Cowboy”.

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt." RIP "Cowboy". OD'd on heroin. Overtown. Miami.

A post shared by Lee Jeffries (@lee_jeffries) on Feb 15, 2016 at 2:15pm PST