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Black and white photography

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Robert Frank /Photographer

 

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Peasants
Peasants
2019

'' A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour. ''

Victor Hugo
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Ovipare
Ovipare
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein / Scientist
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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
William Shakespeare / Hamlet (1603)

* Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy. It was first performed in Paris on December 22, 1894
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Fish run or a nourishing fertility
Fish run or a nourishing fertility
2017

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson / American politician and academic
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The desperate swimmer
The desperate swimmer
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream. / Latin proverb
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Morphose (Morphosis)
Morphose (Morphosis)
- 2017

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Bret Harte / Writer and poet
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L'enfouissement
L'enfouissement
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Front lines
Front lines
-2018

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger.

Nelson Mandela / President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
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Masquerade
Masquerade
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.
Jim Morrison / Singer, Poet
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The gorilla
The gorilla
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.
Jane Goodall / Ethologist & zoologist
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The beast
The beast
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust / Writer
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