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It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

Bill Henson

I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.
BILL HENSON

Approach Beautiful Needed Understood
No medium is more limited than any other. It’s what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.
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Differences Doe Photography
What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.
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Happened Moving World
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We’re always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!
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Black Little Shade White
I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going “It’s me! I’m the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!”
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Reading Standing Down Want
It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.
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Dreamscape Interested Suburbs
Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.
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Interesting Mean Physically Thinking
You have the literalness of a glass on a table – and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can’t get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject – of getting the whole world into the picture.
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Evidential Getting Literariness World
As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I’m convinced it’s not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It’s a bit like young girls and horses.
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Boys Girl Horse
On practical level I can’t pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don’t wander around. It’s almost impossible for me to pick up a camera… it’s really hard.
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Cameras Level Thinking
I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it’s a different place.
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Beautiful Dawn Landscape Light
It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.
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Contradictory Made Photography
When you go to a great concert something that happens is there is a deep sense of communality and connectedness one to another – as though we are all looking to eachother and saying yeah, we get it, we’re all on one page.
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Concerts Pages Yeah
It’s a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them out on a laptop that is plugged into your Hasselblad and go “oh no, do it again, do it again”.
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Decision Different Want
You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
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Body Life Whole World
There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.
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Differences Inherent Mediums

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

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