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I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a critical mass amount of information, and I feel like acting - reacting. My manifesto has always been the same: I cannot act in the world before understanding the world. I will not move a finger. I will not come up with any ideas - nothing - until I actually understand what is happening.

Alfredo Jaar
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Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

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Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

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We are the result of the stimulus we receive.

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How many languages do we really speak?

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America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, …

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Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stop…

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I remember her eyes. The eyes of Gutete Emerita.

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As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they g…

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For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances a good photog…

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