In Praise of Laziness – Why Staying at Home Might Make You a Better Photographer

In our work-obsessed civilisation, laziness is anathema. For centuries, philosophers, politicians and self-help gurus have criticised idleness. Solon, the founder of Athenian democracy, supposedly said that laziness is the mother of all evil . One suspects that Solon had never owned a camera, or considered his carbon footprint.Like everything else, photography has swallowed the productivity myth…