tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85610836936260184012024-03-13T16:29:18.674-07:00 Grow Awry. <center> A blog about storytelling.</center>Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-3605322518105636612016-02-09T19:37:00.001-08:002019-08-05T19:13:06.524-07:00Lady Loves the Movies<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope that my interest in movies can be fully expressed in my position as an information professional. In my small library I do offer some reader's advisory, but I have found myself recommending movies to patrons just as often, if not more. I have started to gather donations with the hopes to obtain a movie license soon so that we can start having regular movie nights. I would love to start a film club in my library's small rural community where I can showcase all sorts of movies for all ages and interests... un dia! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the last two years I have kept a list of all the movies I watch with the intent of familiarizing myself with filmmakers, their styles, and the significance of the time period in which they were filmed. I set a goal to meet by the end of the year, and for the year 2015 I watched a total of 170 movies falling 15 short from my goal of 185. Being a full time grad student/full time employee can be absolutely maddening! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Any critical movie discoveries of 2015? I would say 2014 was the year I devoted to exploring Altman and Cassavetes while 2015 was the year I fully explored Federico Fellini... and I fell in love. I fell in love with the dreaminess, the nostalgia, the cartoon-y faces, the loneliness</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, the circus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have gathered some screenshots I took of some of those movies and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I decided to share them in chronological order of their release date beginning with Marcel Camus'<i> Black Orpheus </i>(1952) ending with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's <i>Birdman </i>(2014). Note that some of them have subtitles, I did this as an experiment and discovered that it didn't work well with all because some of my favorite shots had no words, just images, so although it worked for some, the majority I felt were best left without. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Screenshot from Gustavo's short stop motion movie he made about us. He used my goodwill bric-a-brac to retell the craziness that was our first encounter, and used bits and pieces from some of our favorite movies to retell the craziness that has been the last two years since we met. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is crazy, this is all very crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the moment we realized we both had the same lunares that formed Big Dipper constellations on our right arms, to that time we talked underneath a blanket at the park for hours losing complete track of time until we uncovered ourselves and discovered it was nighttime, to those nights when I had a job I didn't love and would come home totally beat only to find Gustavo waiting by the door with a glass of wine and Kids in the Hall ready to played on the TV (because he knew more than myself that that was exactly what I needed at that moment).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He is my comfort. He is my home. He is my greatest friend. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So here is to a new year and a new commitment, I am engaged guys!</span></div>
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Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-26130767048346499402015-12-08T12:54:00.002-08:002016-02-09T19:45:40.323-08:00On Librarianship...<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For our last discussion in my Reference Services and Information course we were asked to write a brief paragraph or two describing our philosophy on librarianship. I submitted the following: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Information services encompasses a large range of services, and today’s librarians need to be prepared to find a way to cover them all. Especially now amidst our digital era in full bloom, more and more patrons are looking for help in adapting to such changes, and it is our job as public servants to help bridge the gap and promote technological literacy. However, our roles as techy savvy professionals are not just limited to educating those how to download the latest e-book, it is also our jobs as protectors of information to support the fundamental principle of intellectual freedom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My philosophy on librarianship rests on the principle of providing access to information to anyone and everyone. To create a space that celebrates diversity and</span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">is free from discrimination</span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">. A space that can empower members of a community to draw connections between their needs and the resources available to meet those needs. To create a community space, a space that can not only create meaningful relationships between librarians and patrons, but one that can encourage patrons to collaborate with one another as well. A space that helps members of the community stay informed on current events, programs and workshops that are happening not only in the library, but outside the library. In this way, we build strong communities."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am now halfway through my MLIS program and a little over halfway through the first year of my employment with the library. I can now safely say that I totally love what I do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that is a very good thing.</span><br />
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<br />Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-78560863684373586622015-09-29T19:25:00.000-07:002015-10-01T11:36:21.978-07:00Women Under the Influence... of Film <div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I created my very first research guide for a course in my MLIS program that ended up being perhaps the most exciting project of my graduate studies so far. I decided to share it on this thing because I have been so busy with school and my new job that I haven't had a chance to reflect on any non-school/work related things for months now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I created a guide to learning more about women filmmakers for Kern County Library patrons. What this means is that I conducted some serious heavy duty research and created a web page where I organized each type of source (books, electronic articles, DVD's, online websites) with a compiled list of available sources that can be found in the the Kern County Library system through the ValleyCat catalog. Each material is presented with a link that takes you directly to the item in the catalog where with your library card you can request the item to be sent to your local branch. For the electronic articles, you can download them directly onto your device after providing your library card number. COOL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I plan to update and change things here and there in the future but for now the first draft is completed and ready to be utilized. So, in case you were interested in learning about women filmmakers and wanted to use your library card to access this information...</span></div>
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Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-88236197900542323702015-01-18T21:24:00.000-08:002016-03-06T21:25:58.812-08:00A Year of Film, or Suddenly I fell in love with him and ignored my dreams as though they were a burden of another.<span style="color: #222222;"> The year 2014 was marked with some extraordinary and ordinary events. </span><span style="color: #222222;">I drove my car into a tree, moved into a new apartment, overcame a severe driving fear that had haunted me for way too long, met Jane Goodall, received a new promotion, started grad school, spent weeks in bed with mono (thanks Ollie), and spent nearly every single day with my greatest friend: Gustavo. We ate some good food, drank lots of beer/wine, and watched <i>a lot </i>of movies. On days away from work and school we attempted to cram as many movies as we could into our daily lives and discovered some new favorites while revisiting old ones as well. Attached to this overly sentimental/romantic post is a collection of movie stills that we took of some of our favorite moments from a few of the many movies that we watched last year. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"> Also, I would like to share a crucial realization that came over me one day while anxiously waiting for Gustavo to finish up his homework so that we could continue watching Dario Argento’s </span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">Deep Red.</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> I had been reading about the famous French cross-dressing archaeologist Jane Dieulafoy who spent her entire career digging away alongside her husband Marcel. Together they discovered the ancient city of Susa in Iran and together they even fought in the terrifying front lines of the Franco-Prussian war. You see, for many years I was under the belief that I would only find true happiness in the freedom of my self-expression, but what I have discovered is that I am finding true happiness </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">and</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> freedom through the expression of another. Like Dieulafoy, I feel that my greatest worth as an individual is not best expressed through independence, but through partnership. This means that I have released myself from being consumed by my own dreams and desires by consuming myself into a life of fearless companionship. I am not solitary, I was really wrong about that.</span><br />
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<br />Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-6893590783947809442014-12-25T21:50:00.000-08:002014-12-25T21:50:18.885-08:00And Jesus was a Sailor when he walked on top of Water, or A Very Merry Christmas.<br />
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<br />Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-66721089731696758252014-03-02T23:57:00.000-08:002014-03-03T07:58:03.131-08:00It could make you regret your birth, or turn cartwheels in your best suit. <br />
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My father has a broken heart and mine is just now mending. I bought a gigantic bottle of good gin for thirty dollars. I hit a tree on accident, the brakes and steering wheel said "nope, not this time". I felt something I had never felt before right when I thought that I had felt all of the feelings that there were to be felt. Before I hit the tree I was forced to embrace the impending disaster and I thought to myself, "okay, here we go, I hope my body doesn't break." My body didn't break.<br />
<span style="text-align: center;">This is the new year and it has been good to me, I promise. </span><br />
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<br />Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-66486914574216557452014-01-30T14:34:00.002-08:002014-01-30T14:53:35.903-08:00On finding higher ground. <div style="text-align: center;">
I am finding refuge in their laughs and tears.</div>
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How lucky of me.<br />
When I wake they greet me with warm toast/smiles.</div>
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How loving of them.<br />
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The new year has arrived and I am finding higher ground. </div>
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How daring of me.<br />
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Today I would like to give thanks to the town of <st1:city w:st="on">Earlimart</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>. Although
I do feel that I have become very disconnected with that place and its culture since
I moved away, I will always feel a sense of comfort in its familiarity. I am thankful for my step siblings, my step mother, and her arroz mexicano which to this day is still the best I have ever had. I am thankful that my dad
still lives in that little old house so that I can visit and immerse myself
amongst all of the sweet and funny Mexican customs that were once such an
integral part of everyday life. I am talking about the little things, such as the soft sounds of a boiling pot of beans... the aroma of rice being fried in
oil... the distant melody of Los Bukis playing on the radio outside…</div>
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Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-30269684749900650052013-11-21T13:47:00.001-08:002019-08-05T19:13:43.232-07:00In Dreams.<div class="MsoNormal">
When traveling I find myself falling in love with nearly every
new face I encounter. I have to stop myself from dwelling on the thought that I
will probably never see these faces again, or else I become a restless traveler running around attempting to absorb way too many
faces at once. And although bidding farewell is the most difficult part of
these travels, I have found that I am able to reconnect with a lot of these
faces in the most peculiar and beautiful way. Because these strange new faces
are so important to me, they are viciously ingrained in my memory and so they
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Last night I dreamt of the Egyptian man who ran the
ferry that would take us across the <st1:place w:st="on">Nile</st1:place> to
our work site every morning. In this dream he asked me out to
dinner, and I graciously accepted. Although he was terribly late he did show up
with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a warm smile and I was able to forgive
his tardiness. He took me to a nice quiet restaurant located on the rooftop of
a run down hotel right by the <st1:place w:st="on">Nile</st1:place> and after
we finished eating he asked me why I had decided to stop digging up old bones.
I told him that I was confused about a lot of things but that I did miss it and that perhaps one day I would be ready to do it all over again. He
laughed. I got angry. He laughed some more. I woke up.</div>
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As soon as I woke I went through my photos on my computer
because I remembered that I had taken at least one photo of this man. Sure enough I found it, and the funny thing is that he is sleeping in it. I like to think that he too
was in the middle of a dream when I took the photo and that perhaps it too was
a dream about an old familiar face that was buried in his memory, because
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Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-56203398708411209082013-11-02T08:39:00.000-07:002013-11-02T08:39:27.676-07:00Summertime/GraveyardsNew England cemeteries are very photogenic.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">The day my host mom took me to
her childhood home I rode in the back of the truck as my host dad drove through</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">el campo</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">in one of the most beautiful parts of
the Monteverde rainforest. She was taking me to an annual Catholic celebration
of a miracle that occurred in her mother’s house many years ago. She had been
preparing for this significant event since the first day I had arrived and she
was beyond excited that she would be bringing along the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">gringa</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> from</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><st1:state style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">to the festivities. Later during the
event she would grab the microphone and introduce me to a crowd of a hundred
people as “the girl from</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><st1:state style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">who needs your help finding god.” She
then asked for everyone to say a prayer for me and I stood there politely
smiling and nodding my head as people began to introduce themselves. I
had become the godless</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">gringa </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">after
that and I decided to sit behind the musicians' corner and listen to them sing
ballad after ballad in order to avoid as many curious people as I could. Most
of them were surprised to see that the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">gringa</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">my host mom had been talking about was
really just a short Mexican girl who looked no different than themselves but
spoke funny Spanish. I explained that my parents were from</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;" w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">and that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> </span><st1:state style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">
has a large Latino population and so on and so on. Their seemingly endless
curiosity did not trouble me as much at first but as soon as we left the house
that night I was reminded that it was time to ride in the back of
the truck again and at that point it had began to pour. With no way of
completely sheltering myself from it I was forced to embrace the downpour
for the entire thirty minute ride through the forest. It was then that I was first hit with the sudden realization that I was thousands of miles away from
the comforts of home and that my identity here had been reduced to a
godless </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">gringa</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">But just as I became slightly melancholy I noticed
that through the heavy rain the pathway was illuminated
by thousands of fireflies. I was awestruck. I had never seen a single firefly in my entire life prior to that moment. And all of a sudden I found myself laughing
out loud as I thought about how stupid it was to feel discomfort in isolation when I was in the midst of something so magnificent and ordinary. </span><br />
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<br />Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-35255112580821156932013-02-28T10:13:00.002-08:002013-02-28T23:14:50.452-08:00Earlimart, CA. <br />
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I grew up in a small house in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Earlimart</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>. My dad and step family still live there and I don't know if they will ever leave. That
little old house looks much different now than what it looked like when my sister
and I once occupied it. My dad has turned the entire front lot
into his auto shop, and the backyard (which as a child appeared to be a
wild forest with ancient trees) is now completely fenced off with all of
the trees and bushes long gone. That area now houses a large collection of
salvaged vehicles.</div>
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Earlimart represents
the most innocent and happiest days of my childhood. I have very fond memories
of that small town and of the public library with the book about puppies that I
would check out over and over again, of the elementary school, of the hardware
store down the street that seemed to have been there since the dawn of time, of
the tortas and pan dulce, of the swap meet on Friday nights, of my primos and primas, of my Abuelita Elena’s room, of my Abuelito’s garden, of baby
Roky, and of the old log in the backyard that my sister and I used as a bench
until one day fire ants swarmed all over my shorts and I cried and cried and
cried in pain as my mother hosed me down in the front yard.</div>
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When I was ten years
old my parents bought a new bigger house in <st1:city w:st="on">Delano</st1:city>, the city seven miles south of
Earlimart. <st1:city w:st="on">Delano</st1:city>
would come to represent a much different part of my upbringing, the part of self-discovery I suppose. Delano would be where my parent's marriage would fall apart... where Ivan & Christian would be born. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> Here I have a collection of video stills taken from home movies. They span about six years, beginning in 1991 when baby Roky first came home and ending sometime in 1997, right after the Earlimart flood. </span></div>
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Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-1271078941450941112013-01-27T10:23:00.000-08:002013-01-27T10:23:53.960-08:00"Papercuts."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"To be a sailor of the world, bound for all ports."</div>
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Melissa Mejiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314216761936194506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8561083693626018401.post-61238376351846561622013-01-12T20:33:00.000-08:002019-08-05T19:11:13.582-07:00"Couplets"<br />
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photographs that were taken over the course of about five years. With these
photos I have made a series of <i>couplets. </i>Some are in direct correlation with one another, meaning that they are of the
same people, place, and time. Others are not as obviously related, such as the
one of my nephew and niece. Although they were both taken during their first
moments of life, they are of different people, a different place, and most importantly,
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The faces of strangers that I capture in photographs are extremely important to me. I can hardly contain myself from taking pictures when I have a camera in hand. And to clarify, I am no professional photographer by any means. I do not understand the technical characteristics of the camera I use, nor have I ever taken a formal art course. I simply feel the need to take photographs of strangers, places, and things because I am weary of my horrid memory. I am uncomfortable with the realization that I may never see these faces or places again. This is what I mean when I say that the faces of strangers are extremely important to me, they are a vital part of my life history and I am forever grateful that they have let me be a part of theirs, even if it is just for the duration of a click on my camera.</div>
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