Progressive rock is rock that dared to think: long tracks, changing time signatures, concepts spanning whole albums. RUSH, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, King Crimson — bands that treated an album like a book, and a concert like theatre.
I listen to it the way I look at mountains: slowly, and whole. “Close to the Edge” or “Selling England by the Pound” cannot be taken in pieces — they are landscapes you walk through from the first note to the last.
For a photographer it is a natural climate: in the field there are no shortcuts either. First the long road, then the single moment. Prog rock taught me that tension is worth building patiently — the finale then tastes twice as good.