Today at school our teacher gave us a text and I want this text to share with you:

Places

Places where we spend our lives.
Places that we visit for just one moment.
Places we discover by chance.
Places that attract us by their name on a map alone.
Places we will never see again.
Places we can never forget.
Places we long to come back to.
Places that scare us.
Places that comfort us.
Places that make us feel at home.
Places we find repulsive.
Places that fill us with awe.
Places we dreamed about before we ever got there.
Places we got lost in,
and places that we lost ourselves.
Places condition us.
Places protect us.
Places destroy us.

As metaphorical as they might appear, places are always real. You can walk around in them or lie down on the ground. You can take a stone with you or a handful of sand. But you can't take the place with you.

You can never really own a place. Even the camera can't. And if we take its picture, we're only borrowing the place's appearance for a little while, nothing but its outer skin, its surface.

Some of the places I photographed are about to disappear, might already have vanished from the surface of the Earth. They will only survive in photographs, or better: The memory of them will have to cling to the pictures we have of them. Other places will outlive us and even our efforts to capture them on photographs. More so: They will survive any trace of us.

In a million years, when no one will be around any more to even remember us faintly, some of these places will. Places have memories. They remember everything. It's engraved in stone. It's deeper than the deepest waters. Their memories are like sand dunes, wandering on and on.

I guess that's why I take pictures of places: I don't want to take them for granted. I want to urge them not to forget us!

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This text is from an interview with Wim Wenders, a german photographer and film maker....
and this is why I want to make film...to give characters a story and a place to be....




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hulia