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You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.
Zoe Leonard
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Zoe Leonard
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
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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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I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.
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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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If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.
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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'd grown up poor I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.
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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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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.
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There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.
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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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I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.
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I'll finish a body of work and think, Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done. And then you'll turn a corner and be like, Oh my God! And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky.
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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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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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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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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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I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.
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I was really poor for most of my adult life.
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I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.
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I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.
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