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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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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'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'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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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
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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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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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 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 think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.
Zoe Leonard
I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.
Zoe Leonard
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.
Zoe Leonard
By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.
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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.
Zoe Leonard
I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.
Zoe Leonard
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'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 like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.
Zoe Leonard
