Rich Demanowski - Photographs

Infidel. Heretic. Dissident. Skeptic. Iconoclast. And proud of it.

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True story

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A little over an hour left on today’s #PopUpMarket at 970 Calef Hwy in Barrington! Get here before 2 or you’ll have to wait ‘til next week! (at Barrington, New Hampshire)

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Yeah, I have days like that...

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All set up for the #BarringtonNH chamber #PopUpMarket C’mon downand check it out, 970 Calef Hwy Barrington #art #crafts #food #fashion

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Regrammed from @kittens.hub (commentary added)

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Shoe phone, for the selfie era. #GetSmart #Agent66 Regrammed from @kulturtava

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Enjoying the #music at #ArtWalk - #childscapes #child #children #kids #bnw #blackandwhite #monochrome #photo #photos #photography #art #beautiful #photooftheday #exposure #composition #focus #kids_in_bnw #strivetobeanartist (at Dover, New Hampshire)

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This month’s Dover #ArtWalk is in full swing. C’mon down! #art #music #fun (at The Gyro Spot - Dover)

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As the 4th of July approaches, and we prepare for our Independence Day celebrations here in the U.S., I would like to encourage all of you, regardless of what country you call home, to take a few moments out of your day and read (or re-read, as the case may be) the founding documents of our nation: the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America. These two (rather short) treatises outline a very simple (and, at the time, quite revolutionary) philosophy of government, namely that of liberty. It's based on the idea that no person or group of people have the right to impose their way of life on any other person or group of people by using the authority of government to write their belief system into secular law. It's based on the idea that the people don't exist to serve the wants of the ruling class, but that the government exists for the sole purpose of serving the people by ensuring their right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". It is oft stated that "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance". While I agree with this, I think it leaves out the largest portion of the true price of liberty: The willingness to allow others to live according to their own choices, even (or especially?) when you, personally, find their choices to be unwise, foolish, offensive, or even downright repugnant. "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our own will, within the boundaries drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not say 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." - Thomas Jefferson. #freedom #liberty #republic #wethepeople

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🤣🤣🤪(Great. Now I have DrPepper in my nose.)

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No matter what you do, someone will always find something “wrong” with it. Haters gonna hate. So do your thing, your way, and wear it with pride. #beyou #beyourself #beyoutiful

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... frighteningly accurate ...

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I've been trying to formulate a piece that expresses my frustrations with the ongoing, systemic, moral-panic-induced censorship rampant in the online world. I'm not sure whether I prefer the colder, more "mechanical" version (since so much of the censorship comes from "robots" auto-responding to someone clicking the "hert muh feelz" button), or the more flow-y, emotive one (since people tend to hit the "hert muh feelz" button out of an emotional reaction rather than a rational response). "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti It's exhausting, living in a sick society. A culture so deeply neurotic that it feels the need to censor everything from high art to snapshots of mothers and children doing everyday mother-and-child things like bathing or breastfeeding, just because there *might* be someone out there who *could* take it the "wrong" way. Says one ... *ahem* ... "art critic" out there, "the key here is that the photographer needs to take some responsibility for how others could see the image and equally the impact it has.” How? What control does any photographer have over the life experience and emotional baggage that informs the narrative that another person's mind uses to build the story THEY tell themselves about about the photograph? How others “could” see the image is a query with nondeterministic results - there are far too many possible results for anyone to account for. The photographer is not responsible for your emotional baggage. As Benjamin Franklin so eloquently pointed out, “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” (Continued in comments)