Starry Raven

“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls.” Ted Grant ― Ted Grant

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Robert Doisneau. Little girls on the train, 1945.

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“Silencio antes de nacer, silencio después de la muerte, la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.“ Isabel Allende, Paula.

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but pure noise between two unfathomable silences.” Isabel Allende, Paula.

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In memorium

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“…photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light…“ Berenice Abbot

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“Il regarde la ville, cette superposition de mouvements. Ce territoire infini d'intersections, où l'on ne se rencontre pas.” Delphine de Vigan, Les heures souterraînes.

“He looks at the city, at this superimposing of movements. This infinite territory of intersections where we do not meet.” Delphine de Vigan, Underground time.

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Tales of solitude.

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“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” Desmond Tutu

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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“We are all aware of time passing and us not being aware of it while it’s passing.” Nicholas Nixon

▫️Photo ©Nicholas Nixon - The Brown sisters, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2016.▫️

Over a period of 40 years Nicholas Nixon has taken a portrait of his wife Bebe and her three sisters, the only constants being the order in which they appear left to right and the size of the negative. On the first photo, taken in 1975, left to right, the sisters were twenty-three (Heather), fifteen (Mimi), twenty-five (Bebe) and twenty-one (Laurie).

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“Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.” Dalai Lama

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“The principal person in a picture is light.” Edouard Manet

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“Don’t curse the darkness, light a candle.” Confucius

▫️Photo ©Linda Connor - Votives candles, Chartres, France, 1990.▫️

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“You’re trying to leave yourself behind, but you can’t. The more you try to run away from yourself, the more you’ll have yourself with you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Adjuster”

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“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” Sigmund Freud

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“Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.” Martha Graham

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“What greater gift than the love of a cat.” Charles Dickens

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“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” Henry Van Dyke

▫️Photo ©Piergiorgio Branzi - Boy with a Clock, Comacchio, 1956▫️

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“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

Sarah Williams, poem “The Old Astronomer”.

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Ad aeternum

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“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” Helen Keller

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In memorium