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What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Essay Image Else Come
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Become Photographer Working Better
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Even after photographing for 16 years, I still consider myself a novice. I am still learning.

Photographing Consider Novice Learning
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

About Album Extended Family
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Constructs Painter Photographer
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

Because Now Photographer True
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My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

Am Camera Concept Dream
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I've been working with photography for many years.

Been Many Photography Working
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I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

About Became Involved Old
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I have a master's degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.

Art Call Cameras Carry
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I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

About Became Been Enamored
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In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

All Am Big Cinema
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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I've got a great collection of photography.
Collection Got Great Photography
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Back Chemistry Color Convinced
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Being Better Difficulties Explicit
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Above Admire Embrace Key
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

Days Most Photographers Committed
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Set in place the lovers who will afterwards be photographs.

Place Lover Photographs
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Arrows Banging Computer Detective
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

About Artist Could Day
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

Acting Background Camera Filters
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One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

One eye Wide open Viewfinder
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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Decide Gaze Like Look
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

Age Anxiety Any Anything
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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Code Image Message Photographic
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Always Invisible Photograph See
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

After How Know Like
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Most things In life Pleasure Embarrassment
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Photograph each day so we can live forever

Photograph Each day Live forever
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Really believe Things Would see Photograph them
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Photography takes An instant Of time Altering life
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

Making movie Capture reality A photograph
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