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“It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.”

Quote by Abelardo Morell

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Abelardo Morell

Abelardo Morell, born in 1948, is a renowned photographer known for his unique perspective and innovative photographic techniques. His works focus on capturing the details and light changes in everyday life, with a distinctive style that has won him acclaim from both the art world and the public. more

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“The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.”

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“Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.”

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“The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe - if you care to look with young eyes.”

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“A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.”

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“...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?”

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“I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.”

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“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.”