Roland Barthes once wrote: "What photography reproduces infinitely happened only once".
I am completely in agreement with him.
Photography is the only means that can offer us the luxury of eternally recording unique moments, which last for only an instant.
Once, I photographed a gigantic tree, which grew between two hills. The negative was scratched in the lab. Two days later, I went to photograph the same tree, at the same time of day, with the same lens, and from the same axis. I compared the two photographs and they didn't even look like each other. We can photograph the same landscape many times in a row. The photos can be very beautiful but they will never be the same... the trees seemed to be expressing different feelings that day.
Abbas Kiarostami, "Photographies, Photographs, Fotografie..." Hazan - interview by Michel Ciment
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