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“I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.”

Quote by Gilles Peress

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Gilles Peress, born on December 29, 1946, is a renowned photographer known for his profound documentation of conflict and human suffering. more

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“We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.”

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“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.”

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“I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to you that you can derive ideas without going through words. So I'm forcing you to really look. And this process of looking, it's like a new set of ideas that are being proposed to you.”

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“[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?”

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“I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.”

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“Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.”

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