You Are Not Alone
In a 2016 New Yorker magazine piece titled “Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer,” Hanya Yanagihara describes the act of bearing gentle and silent witness as a photographer. It’s when the person behind the camera willingly makes themselves anonymous to give visibility to an otherwise overlooked instance in another life. In other words, a moment becomes recognized by the world as something valuable because the photographer says, “Don’t think about me. Look instead at how fleeting and beautiful life is.”
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