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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.
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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By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.
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I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.
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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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