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It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Berri
South Australia
Australia
Art
Photography
Dragging
Past
Exist
Weighed
People
Events
Fog
Memories
Captured
Came
Photographs
Future
Cruel
Ironical
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Allowed
Glimpsed
Moments
Photograph
Evaporate

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