I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What … - Zoe Leonard

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I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

Zoe Leonard

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

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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.

Art, Fine, Human, Order, Photography, World

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.

Gain, Gains, Giving, Losing, Progress

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.

Mind, Photography, See, Way

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.

Act, Objective, Photography, Practice, Recording, Understanding

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