I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then … - Zoe Leonard

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Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.

Zoe Leonard

I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

Camera, Cameras, Presentation, Running, Want, Work

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What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents. . . All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.

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Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

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What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.

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Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational.

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When people look at a photograph, they believe it. . . My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.

Believe, Edge, Look, People, Views

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