“Don't give up on your faith just to please someone who has no faith at all;
That is like giving up a treasure to please someone who has none.”
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That is like giving up a treasure to please someone who has none.”
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“When you raise the camera to your eye you become responsible for contextualizing the history of the person you are photographing. It is critical that photographers take that responsibility as seriously as they do the photograph itself. Stories need to be approached with intellectual curiosity rather than a mere visual curiosity. It is also critical they consider the people they are photographing as collaborators, not “subjects.”
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“We should never be afraid of finding the truth about our personality since what we see now has always been visible to others.”
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“Those without heritage, history, and place are subject to exploitation, manipulation, and deception.”
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“We should strive to focus our lens on what connects us as humans as opposed to our differences. In doing so, not only can we challenge the Orientalist and colonial aspects of traditional photographic narratives, but we can also create a new visual legacy marked by equitable discourse.”
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Xizi’s 2025 Year in Books
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