{"id":7024,"date":"2011-11-17T06:36:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T10:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2011-11-17T06:36:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T10:36:24","slug":"qa-phil-borges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/7024\/qa-phil-borges\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Questions With Photographer Phil Borges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Borges2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Borges2.jpg\" alt=\"Borges2\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Borges<\/a> provides quick candid answers to 20\u00a0questions.<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the best thing about photography? <\/strong><br \/>\nPhotography has been the key that has let me enter cultural worlds very different from my own.<br \/>\n<strong>How do you know when an image is great?<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can feel it. It moves you emotionally.<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the most useful photographic mantra?<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8216;Get closer\u2019.<br \/>\n<strong>What failure did you learn the most from?<\/strong><br \/>\nLosing my cool with difficult people. It always fails.<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the best thing about influence?<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can bring about change.<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the worst thing about influence?<\/strong><br \/>\nChange isn\u2019t always good.<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the best thing about our times?<\/strong><br \/>\nTechnology.<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the worst thing about our times is?<\/strong><br \/>\nTechnology.<br \/>\n<strong>What is your most marked characteristic?<\/strong><br \/>\nPersistence.<br \/>\n<strong>What do you most value in your friends?<\/strong><br \/>\nHumor, authenticity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/q-and-a\/PhilBorges.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the rest of Phil&#8217;s answers here.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about Phil Borges here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/books-prints.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find Phil&#8217;s books here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tibetontheedge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find out about Phil&#8217;s latest project \/ book Tibet : Culture On the Edge here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/3154\/phil-borges-documenting-endangered-cultures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Phil&#8217;s TED presentation here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/q-and-a\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read answers to the same questions by other photographers here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/artists\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read my series Photographers On Photography here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Borges provides quick candid answers to 20\u00a0questions. 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