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Gaza: "Worse than a prison—a grave yard" (January 2008)
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Through photography Through photography I love: daughters, friends, the earth. Through photography I am angry: at injustice, pomposity, violence, deceit, ignorance, greed. Through photography: I am perverse, critical, analytic, emotive, radiant, clumsy, elegant, adventurous, irreverent, romantic. Through photography: I am a person of the world, of the cosmos. And I am a recluse, an isolate, a monk. For all this I am very grateful. I praise my photographic lineage--ancestors who have taught me, contemporaries who cooperate with me and successors who might benefit from what I've attempted to do. I thank the great spirit, god, the higher power, the ground of being, the still small voice inside, the pulse of the universe for allowing me--perhaps--to be aligned with this force, rather than opposed to it. Photography is my main form of prayer--I pray outward to the beings, things, forces I photograph. I pray inward to my own center by sensing the light within. I pray to others by showing them my photos. I link with the light, both inward & outward. Photography fuses my many tendencies, it allows expression of my various urgencies. May these images better balance the plethora of main media images we constantly experience: catastrophe, despair, ruination, death. May they help broaden the palette of art to include hope, faith, fun, exhilaration, antics, joy, friendship, worship, love. In the midst of a troubled time, may they affirm the life force. --Skip Schiel, October 19, 2007 |
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