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“What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.” quote by Laozi — Download Open image

“What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.”

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The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it…

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It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.

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