All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers.
John Berger Quotes
To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen, but to emigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?