The Colour of Life. Sept 1993. Terence Dixon.

"The viewer exists in a limbo...with an image of the subject so alive, such proof they existed, a 'certificate of presence' and yet confronted with the fact that this is an image of something that is 'no longer there'.
The photo leads us along and lets us peep for one hundredth of a second [the speed of the shutter] at what has been. We can never hold open the shutter and immerse ourselves completely in the past of the photograph.We encounter only absence,stillness and silence. The subject becomes indeed a 'reality one can no longer touch'."