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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.
Zoe Leonard
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Zoe Leonard
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
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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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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 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 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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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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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 don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.
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There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.
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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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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.
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I'd grown up poor I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.
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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 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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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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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'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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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 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.
Zoe Leonard
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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