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The only people I really hate are parking attendants. Alison Jackson

Hate People Only Parking Really

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function. Alison Jackson

Work Hope Art Mind Down Photograph Exactly Exactly The Same Primary Opens Advertising Makes Does Conclusive Least Up Art Work Sells Same Closes Product Your Using Function Things

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception. Alison Jackson

You Perception Own Rely Particularly How Interested Your

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got. Alison Jackson

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. Alison Jackson

Photography Sense Complacency Medium Though Superficial Something True Leads Know False False Sense Deceitful Us Even Believing Necessarily

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. Alison Jackson

You Think Everything Constantly See Composing Through Pictures Text Lens

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves. Alison Jackson

Life Work Big Real Life Our About Between Look Real Celebrities Celebrity Different Them Themselves Gap Image Images

Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path. Alison Jackson

Creative Path Follow Able Feel Always Been Very Lucky

Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter. Alison Jackson

Work Time You People Amazing Social Media Twitter Our Find Finding Perfect Crucial Also Process Lengthy Social Use Who Media

I go up to people and ask if I can use them in my photos. Occasionally it is the person in question, as happened with James Hewitt. How embarrassing. He just laughed and said, 'You can't afford me.' Alison Jackson

Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion. Alison Jackson

Religion Experience Own Stars Once Status Through Taken Look Provide Celebrity Achieved Transcendental Us Holy Now

Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control. Alison Jackson

People Control Constantly Through He Observing Participate Voyeur Camera Ultimate Did Listened Behind Warhol Lens Watched

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it. Alison Jackson

Photography Something More Never Know Obtain Want Acts Suggesting

There is always room for coincidence. Alva Noto

Always Room Coincidence

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically. Alva Noto

Art Time Me Made Finally Musically More More And More Physically Since Until Well Around Got Sound Integrated Subject Tapes Lot Different Experiments Interesting Realized Then Works Ever

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. Alva Noto

Alone Sometimes Stronger Other Possible Would Would-Be Visuals Some Disturbing Some Things Only Perfectly Overlap Sound Times Closer Want Again Then Much Express Expressed Things Images

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. Alva Noto

Balance Try Understanding Comprehension Emotional Between Intellectual Keep

Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations. Aman Mojadidi

Politics Art Religion Culture Economics International Relations Society Relations Considered Way See About Voice Fact Misguided Powerful Global Been Discussions Often Transcendent In Fact International

I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department. Aman Mojadidi

Work Corruption Money Police Car Through Instead Checkpoint Police Department Looked Police Officer Fake Up Offered Officer Behalf Department Afghanistan Stopped Them Asking Apologized Bribe Street Set

Jihad is the Afghan bling. Aman Mojadidi

Jihad Afghan

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself. Aman Mojadidi

Myself Me Picture Live Worlds States Correspond Neither Born Both Both Worlds Shaped Feel Like Decade American Afghan Afghanistan Maybe Them Nearly Raised Needed

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