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writings themselves. Then actors and actresses portrayed the reinvented scenery. By adding hand-written notes on the surface of the staged photographs, he connects image with text and displays extracts from the lives of those people, in their own native languages. The viewer is linked to something general as well as to the specific and private, diving into people’s fears, desires, and dreams.
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