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Galan

3 years

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive. #bnw #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #photography #Kurdistan

Galan

@GalanZJ1

3 years

“I work in color sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it.” – Mary Ellen Mark #blackandwhite #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #Choman #Kurdistan

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The first time a French man tasted Coca-Cola, 1950.

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Edward Hopper's sketchbook.

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Kurd's house in one of the villages in Kurdistan

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The oldest house in France. It's found In Aveyron, it's 700 years old, it was built in the 13th century and belonged to a Jeanne. The ground floor is a little smaller than the upstairs because in those times you only paid taxes on occupied land, so everyone built like this.

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“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.” Hermann Hesse

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Abandoned beauties ❤

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My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Inside, we are ageless…and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center." ~David Lynch

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“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

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Time is an Illusion, Timing is an Art

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Kurdish old architecture house in the middle of the mountains of Kurdistan, Hawraman

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An abandoned tiny cosy Icelandic cabin.

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Everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing, which cannot be exaggerated. ~Franz Kafka

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Kurdish girl in 1896

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Newroz #Kurdistan 🔥❤☀️💚

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"There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A library inside an abandoned 19th century victorian mansion. Who wants to explore??

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Kurdish kids photo by Im asrin

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Kurdish dance, 1930❤

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Sylvia Plath’s handwritten journal -at The National Portrait Gallery - Washington

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''The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” - Leonardo da Vinci

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ” ― Lord Byron

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Beautiful paintings by Kurdish artist Khairy Adam

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"What I would like to paint is sunlight on the wall of a house" •Edward Hopper

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Kurdish women ❤☀️💚

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I have led a toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on - and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

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My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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Village in Italy , but abandoned!

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"I will cut adrift.I will sit on pavements and drink coffee.I will dream.I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim.this fine October." Virginia Woolf. from a diary entry .October 1927 featured in “Diaries"

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The real Dracula's Castle Abandoned, Romania photo taken in 1920s.

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Hawraman, Kurdistan ❤☀️💚

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Hawraman - #beautifulkurdistan #rojhelat

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People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration. ~Bertrand Russell

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Gewer, Hakari, Kurdistan💛

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Original scrip of Persona.

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Kurt Cobain and his cat, 1989.

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vassar college girls practicing greek dance, c. 1923.

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New beginning is ahead! My #graduation at @SoranUniversity

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Beauty of Kurdish kids #portrait

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"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself." Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov, 1880“Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss,I go straight into it,head down and heels up,and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position,and for me I find it beautiful.”

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By Afghan street artist Shamsia Hassani. Nightmare

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Beauty......

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How Bears have a picnic! 🍎 🍏 🐻

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Helebçe û jinên rêveber..!❤

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Hawraman- #beautifulkurdistan #rojhelat #mountains #nature

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My graduation ceremony👩‍🎓 with my dear friends @vvanwilgenburg & Mr. Paul ❤ and I want to thanks my gorgeous mother @ChawshinCrochet and my dear siblings @GulanZj @AghaDelza and @Agharasull for always supporting me 🙏

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“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.” Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray, 1931.

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Hawraman - beautiful Kurdistan by Hadi Fatah تابلۆی #گوندی #هەورامانی_تەخت لە #کوردستانی_ڕۆژهەڵات بەڕەنگی ئەکرلیک لەسەر قوماش بەئەندازەی 60 بە 100 سانتیم

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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. ~Albert Camus

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زمان شوناسە، زمان ماڵی بوونە. زارامحەمەدی مامۆستای زمانی کوردی دەڵێ"زمانی من جیهانی منە." ڕۆژی جیهانی زمانی دایک پیرۆزبێت. Roja Zimanê Dayikê pîroz be! ❤☀️💚 دووی ڕەشەمێی 2722 ڕۆژی جیهانی زمانی دایکی پیرۆز بێ. #happyInternationalMotherLanguageDay

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Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said. Albert Camus, The Stranger

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The light at the end of the tunnel is a train

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Roj baş Kurdistan ❤☀️💚 #kaniarash #Choman #beautifulKurdistan #nature #summer

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“Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Nature always reclaims what humanity abandons….

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"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself." By Simone de Beauvoir

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/ "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free." / - Arthur Schopenhauer

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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." — Friedrich Nietzsche

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With gorgeous friends in Shler flowers field ❤🌺 #beautkurdistan #mountains #Choman #flowers

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Bardabuk mountains #choman nature makes me happy:)

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One of the last photos of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1899.

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the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. Charles Bukowski

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Balekayetî region, Kurdistan❤☀️💚

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Over 800 year old pack horse bridge in Lancashire, England.

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House of kurds in the past

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Nobody is going to pour the truth into your head. It’s something you have to find for yourself. ~ Noam Chomsky

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Engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958 Photo: Berenice Abbott

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🏡❤kurdestan_Hawramantakht

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Ilya Glazunov: Dostoevsky in Petersburg. Autumn., 1985

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Hawraman region in Kurdistan during winter❤

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Erbil in 1983

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"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one". —Emil Cioran E. M. CIORAN Died on this day, in 1995

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A French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945. (Photo by Branson Decou).

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Hello, May! Month of flowers and colors. #purple #flowers #nature #mountains #beautifulkurdistan #landscape

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"Why do men insist on achieving something ? Would it not be better if they stood still under the sun in calm and silent immobility ? What is there to accomplish ? Why so much effort and ambition ? Man has forgotten the meaning of silence." —Emil Cioran On the Heights of Despair

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“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.” Georgia O'Keeffe

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Newroz piroz be ...

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The Seventh Seal (1957) Dir. Ingmar Bergman.

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Hawraman - #beautifulkurdistan 📸: samanaesgerazi

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"I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole." Krzysztof Kieslowski 🎬 Three Colours: Blue (1993) / dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Hawraman #beautifulkurdistan #rojhelat

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A mystery artist has been creating sculptures using natural stones high among the hills of England's Lake District. This stone circle frames the view of Borrowdale.

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No friends but the mountains 💚 #beautifulkurdistan #mountains #Choman #nature #happyworldphotographyday2021 #photograghy

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Hawraman - beautiful Kurdistan

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"Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning." --from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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A Voyage to the Moon - Gustave Dore, c.1868.

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“Experience teaches only the teachable.” Aldous Huxley

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A 600 years old Astronomical Clock in Prague.

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"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." It’s the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, he was born in Boston on 19th January 1809.

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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder." — Thomas Aquinas Painting by Rembrandt Van Rijn, Philosopher Reading (1631) #books #literature #art

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The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men. ~Albert Camus