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What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.
Zoe Leonard
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Zoe Leonard
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
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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'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.
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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 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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Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.
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I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational.
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I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.
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I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.
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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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You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.
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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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If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.
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I was really poor for most of my adult life.
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I'd grown up poor I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.
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I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.
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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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Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.
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I never heard the term art world until I was in my thirties, and I was like, What are you guys talking about? It's the world, and we all live in the world!
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