The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life.

Zoe Leonard

Categorized in : Thinking Careers Voice

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

our-family materials psychological

I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.

trump thinking

After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

mutual-benefit fire war

I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.

clubs going-out band

Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly rare space of contemplation and taking the time and energy to be thoughtful.

thoughtful space energy

By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.

overwhelmed littles world

I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.

hard simple thinking

I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.

always-learning imagine i-can

I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.

taking-pictures excited believe

I'll finish a body of work and think, "Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done." And then you'll turn a corner and be like, "Oh my God!" And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky.

lucky done thinking