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" A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image. "

Wolfgang Tillmans

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" On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus. "

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" It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner. "

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" In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth. "

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