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Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime, 1996.

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Blinkofaneye: I take many different types of photographs which often have to conform to a set criteria, but on occasion, I stumble across moments that are easily overlooked. Random encounters that only a split second of light passing through a shutter can reveal. This has nothing to do with photographic truth or the defining moment. It is little more than a recording of my desire to press the shutter and freeze time. These scenes are no more, yet the pictures remain, an illusion, markers in time.

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