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Teju Cole Interview: My Looking Became Sacred

“As a photographer my looking really changed, it really did become sacred....” In this Louisiana Channel video, Teju Cole talks about and reads from his book of photography and text, Blind Spot (Random House, 2017), which was inspired by a short period of blindness in one eye that transformed his perspective on looking and attentiveness. The book is comprised of over a hundred fifty photographs interspersed with short lyrical prose pieces.

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Teju Cole
Blind Spot
Random House
2017
2018
Louisiana Channel
Louisiana Literature Festival
photography

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