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If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand. . . then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

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Mona Kuhn

I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves.

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I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

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I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence. . . images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

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The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.

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[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.

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Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

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If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand. . . then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

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