thoughts on photographing living things.

i don't like taking photographs of people or animals. i like taking photographs of rocks and plastic and graffiti because these are more or less concrete. these are things that will last. these are things that are meant to last. people, animals, mobile living things, are meant to exist fluidly, fleetingly. the present exists for a few seconds at best, and to try and preserve those few seconds is not something i fully understand. in a way, it seems reminiscent of frankenstein; it's trying to make immortal that which is inherently mortal. and that, specifically, i suppose, is what i find difficult to understand.