Quoting Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, Faber & Faber, Ch. Object Lesson, 2016

Objects, sometimes more powerfully than faces, remind us of what was and no longer is; stillness, in photography, can be more affecting than action.

[…] because objects are reservoirs of specific personal experience, filled with the hours of some person’s life.
— Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, Faber & Faber, Ch. Object Lesson, 2016

2:41pm on October 20, 2024 from Marmara, Turkey


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