In 1968, sitting for a Playboy Magazine interview, Stanley Kubrick was asked, “If life is so purposeless, do you feel it’s worth living?”. In Kubrick’s reply, he noted:


The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” *

Tim Gerdes is an existentialist photographer. His photographs are his light.

* see also: To Photograph is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions, by Tim Carpenter.


Tim has been called a vigilante with a halo, a soldier in love’s army, and a great person.