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Animal nature
“All this points to a kind of imperative, minimally expressed as: Do something. Better expressed, it says: Create something. To do otherwise is simply to […]
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Go on anyway
“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. […]
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Mildly contemptible self-indulgent dilettante
“I have to admit that there is another reason I like photographers — they don’t tempt me to envy. The profession is short on dignity: […]
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Focal matter
Poetry by Pablo Neruda And it was at that age . . . poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know […]
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Visible world
“Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was […]
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Out in the world
“What freedom! Just being out in the world, shooting whatever spoke to me or suggested itself to my eye. Actually, learning to listen to what […]
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Under the sun
“Don’t censor yourself. Go ahead and photograph anything around you that seems interesting. Don’t compare yourself. People think ‘this has been done before’, and you […]
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Cité Mémoire
Montreal, July 27-28