“Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.”
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“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.”
A monkey called Robby
Recently I made a story about the circus monkey called Robby, you can read it over on spiegel.de
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“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
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“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.”
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“Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.”
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in Private
me, 14.04.2018
Hanan Kayed Portraits
in Portrait
A quick tearsheet of portraits I did recently for Der Spiegel which I really liked.
Print Portfolio
Thats what my two new portfolio books look like, really happy with how it turned out!
New Portraits in the Portfolio
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I have redone a large selection of my Portrait Portfolio today and didnt want to simply delete the photos that got replaced, so i decided to post them here.
Feel free to tell me what you think about the new pictures, much appreciated!
old, removed, pictures:
Arthur Wagner, Reportage
Last week I did a reportage for Der Spiegel about Arthur Wagner - a member of the german right-wing party AfD who has recently converted to islam. You can read the story here.
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“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
ILYF - Andrej
ILYF or I Like Your Face is a series where I take portraits of friends or random people from all walks of life i got to know recently and liked.
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“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”
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“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details.
Details are always vulgar.”
ILYF - Niklas
ILYF or I Like Your Face is a series where I take portraits of friends or random people from all walks of life i got to know recently and liked.
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“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
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“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
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“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.”