Through photography and writing…

Yesterday I left French Polynesia with one thought on my mind… ‘This will not be the last return’. For one month I spent time discovering segments of my culture, and my life, through photographs and the few entries that I wrote in my paper journal. I travelled with my camera lenses to document time, and to capture life as I saw it to be, but accompanied by lenses came my journal, a booklet with one hundred paper pages for my thoughts. Thoughts about my culture, thoughts about my love as it was, and thoughts about life, life as it is, and the life that I perceived in French Polynesia. These next entries are about travel, life, culture, photography and writing… Through the eyes of, me.

 

Margot Duane, the photographer from San Francisco…

Today I met a very intriguing photographer from San Francisco by the name of Margot Duane. Capturing photographer of Barak Obama, Courtney Love, Bill Clinton and, one of my favorite actresses, the revered, the talented, the beautiful… Marion Cotillard, the talented French actress who played the inspiring yet complex character of Chanteuse Édith Piaf in the internationally acclaimed film: La Vie En Rose. 

Our conversation started when she politely asked what country I was originally from, after observing my accent. I knew that she was American only after a few seconds of conversing. It was the most inspiring conversation of my day. I find any individual who can live a life pursuing an artistic passion, inspiring and admirable. And, admittedly… I can’t get over the Marion Cottilard segment. My general appreciation, or perhaps you could call it a form of respect stems from the fact that I really admire anyone who lives and does what they truly love in life. It is inspiring to me in the sense that it reminds me of the fact that, it isn’t just what you do, or how you do it, it is whether or not you are passionate about what you are doing.