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When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.
Zoe Leonard
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Zoe Leonard
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
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The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life.
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What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.
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We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense - is one of the few spaces where we're allowed to look and think without an immediate response or reaction.
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I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.
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I was really poor for most of my adult life.
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Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly rare space of contemplation and taking the time and energy to be thoughtful.
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I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.
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There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.
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By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.
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I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.
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I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.
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If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.
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There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.
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You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.
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I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.
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I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions there's just a lot going on, right?
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I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.
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I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.
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I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.
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