john berger
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If I’m a storyteller it’s because I listen. For me, a storyteller is like a passeur who gets contraband across a frontier. John Berger
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Filters of mind
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2 min read
The challenge isn’t knowing what to see. The challenge is learning how to see. As soon as you learn what to look for, your originality dwindles. Your interpretation becomes someone else’s. To see well, in pictures and words, you have to know how to notice the good from the bad. Pictures speak in words. If what you…
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‘If I don’t try to tell it, it risks not being told’
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1 min read
“What has prompted me to write over the years is the hunch that something needs to be told and that, if I don’t try to tell it, it risks not being told. I picture myself not so much a consequential, professional writer, as a stop-gap man.” — John Berger, Confabulations