"I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.
Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I coordinate any and all points of the universe, where ever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you."
Dziga Vertov, 1923 (quoted by John Berger, Ways of Seeing)
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I love photography, brilliant photography, the language of images. Vision precedes words, and I draw comfort from moments frozen in time. Disturbing images provide security in the knowledge bad times have passed and beautiful images whisper that good times will last forever.
The camera is my quiet conspirator—my pal who knows where I hide the diary key. I think of myself as a snapshot artist, endeavoring to save every moment.
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