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when susan sontag claimed that “all photographs are memento mori”, she was making a point in general about photography’s relation to death, and necessarily that of time itself. in a way, we are all on our own pilgrimage towards death; always living towards death. but a photograph ‘frozen in time’ jolts me out of temporality and into a realization that we are all headed to the same place, albeit in our own ‘time’. the camera is never neutral. being ‘non-interventionist’ is a political stance taken and claiming to be apolitical is a dissimulation at best. so the next time you aim the camera, make sure you take the world hostage. we can all be violent, just as violent as gandhi was for peace.

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"The camera doesn’t rape, or even possess, though it may presume, intrude, trespass, distort, exploit, and, at the farthest reach of metaphor, assasinate - all activities that, unlike the sexual push and shove, can be conducted from a distance, and with some detachment."

— Susan Sontag, On Photography

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2011: waking dreams

memories.

zagreb | postojna | ljubljana | belgrade | budapest | berlin | cuenca | krakow

minolta x-300. holga. various films.