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- With my pictures, I try to create some emotion,

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something which inspires you,

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which makes you laugh

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or create memories or provoke something.

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I'm Ellen Von Unwerth, I'm a photographer.

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Even growing up, I was always living

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in a kind of a dream world.

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I was modeling for 10 years,

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and my boyfriend was a photographer.

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He gave me a camera.

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He said, "there's a plus, a circle, and a minus,

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when the circle lights up, you shoot."

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And that was my photographing lesson.

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I started to shoot street photography.

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Suddenly I saw life in a different way,

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really zooming into what's happening

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and capturing that moment, immortalize it.

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The Lennox lounge, which I believe doesn't exist anymore.

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It was some pictures I did in Kenya,

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my first, first pictures.

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Feel the movement, you feel the energy, the beauty.

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Sometimes my pictures were out of focus

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and like with movement, but I love that too,

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because you feel kind of the urge

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that I really wanted to capture that picture.

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(phone chimes)

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Oh my dentist.

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The moment you are with somebody

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and have somebody in front of the camera you do go deep

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and you do try to bring out the personality

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and show sides of them which maybe they don't even know.

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It's important to take risks,

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'cause is a kind of freedom

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and this kind of source for happiness.

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Stay in tune with what's going on around you

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to know what you're looking for.

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Every day is a reinvention.