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“After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.”

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Stuart Franklin

Stuart Franklin is a British photographer renowned for his significant contributions to the field of news photography. Born on July 16, 1956, Franklin's career has been marked by his photographs capturing some of the most pivotal events of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. more

“Reading is always a way of forming a bond with other people. I'm not very good at socializing - I quite like spending time alone - so reading is a way of engaging quite deeply with the way other people think. Quite often when you meet other people socially you don't get to have a conversation of any depth. You end up talking about how well or how badly someone is doing at school or something of that sort. Questions like, "What we are," "Who we are," "Where are we going," you get those from literature and from people that spend some time thinking.”

People Thinking School Reading Literature Very Good Me Alone Spending Time

Author:Stuart Franklin

“As humans, we need to question all these notions. What does freedom mean for us? What are our responsibilities? It takes one-250th of a second to take a photograph. So I have the whole of the rest of that second - and of that day - to think.”

Thinking Mean Responsibility Photograph

Author:Stuart Franklin

“What you aren't ready for being the first time in space - on an emotional and intellectual level - is how looking down at Earth will profoundly affect you. Over the long term, it has changed the way I think about planet Earth. When you go around the planet and look down, you think about the fact that this is the cradle of humanity, that this is a place where seven billion people, 200 countries, live side by side, that we share this place and there's nowhere else to go.”

People Thinking Long Country Earth Humanity Term Share Changed Emotional Intellectual First Time Seven Long Term Planet Earth

Author:Marc Garneau

“The most fun to do in the weightlessness is going down the ladder headfirst, walking on the ceiling, chasing after M&M's that you throw up into the air - they're just bouncing around all over the place and you go around like a fish eating them. I often tell kids that when you go into space and experience weightlessness, the serious adult in you gives way to the child you used to be, who had imagination, who had no bounds on what was possible.”

Giving Children Kids Fun Imagination Serious Walking Eating

Author:Marc Garneau