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© paul willaert (New York - Lexington Avenue - 2009)

live here is very different #19

© paul willaert (New York - 2009)

life here is very different #18

© paul willaert (New York - Brooklyn Bridge - 2009)

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© paul willaert (New York 8th Avenue - 2009)

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© paul willaert (new york - subway - 2009)

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© paul willaert (new york - eleventh avenue - 2009)

life here is very different #14

© paul willaert (new york - yankee stadium bronx - 2009)

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© paul willaert (new york - 2009)

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© paul willaert (new york - guggenheim - 2009)

life here is very different #11

© paul willaert

life here is very different #10

© paul willaert (new york - jacques brel - 2009)

q.

Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy - the tone range isn't right and things like that - but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

Elliot Erwit

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© paul willaert (new york - subway - 2009)

q.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.


© robert frank

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© paul willaert (new york - 6th avenue - 2009)

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© paul willaert (new york - high line - 2009)

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© paul willaert (new york - moma - 2009)

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© paul willaert (new york subway - 2009)

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© paul willaert (new york - times square - michael jackson's memorial - 2009)

I encounter difficulties in categorising my New York photographs in existing series.
Therefore I have created a series of it's own: 'life here is very different'
Somehow I recognised the feelings that I experienced during my journey
in a letter that Robert Frank wrote to his parents in 1947:


Dear Parents,

Never have I experienced so much in one week as here.
I feel as if I'm in a film. Life here is very different than in Europe.
Only the moment counts, nobody seems to care about
what he'll do tomorrow.

life here is very different #3

© paul willaert (new york - 2009)

life here is very different #2

© paul willaert (new york - 2009)

life here is very different #1

© paul willaert (new york - 2009)

tales of innocence #11

© paul willaert (wissant france 2004)