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Dani & Me (Then & Now)
Left photo_ Carlos Morante - "Mi Viejo" (My Old Man) , sometime in the 80s (82?)
Roosevelt Park, Uruguay
Right photo_ © F.M. Morante_2012
Waubedonia Park, Wisconsin, US
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
Susan Sontag "On Photography"
Yesterday me and my sisters got a good laugh taking the picture on the right, me and Daniela. It has been almost 30 years since my Dad took the one on the left. It is something quite compelling to do this sort of "exercise on time passing", which it is hard to explain with words, and which I prefer the images to do me the favor.
Thirty years is a lot (or not sometimes) but one thing is for sure, we may be different in many ways, we have taken many different paths and we are not already the same we were yesterday when we took that picture (based on "Sontag's statement), I am really happy of been with her on that picture as I was back then. I really do hope in another thirty years to do another picture like this and still be laughing about it.
For now I share it here, hoping to have soon one similar with my other sister Carolina.
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