FOOD &
FOTO
While teaching a semester-long class in
photography, I invited my students to lunch
one day. If memory serves me, it was a
Mexican restaurant. One student (18 years
old, blonde and blue-eyed) barely ate anything.
She said her mother only cooked meat and
potatoes and she only ate hamburgers and
french fries. This seemed unacceptable to
me and I told her just the two of us would be
returning to lunch the next day. I tried to get
her to eat anything on the menu.
I explained that she made the biggest, most
courageous decision in her young life by going
to school to become a photographer. She was
opening her mind to a lifetime of new ideas. It
would be a pity if she was closed to one of the
most basic.
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