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"beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time." - albert camus

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:21:17 -0700

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"we only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!" - gary ryan blair

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:31:03 -0700

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Model Credit: Deniz K.

"let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" - fanny brice

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:33:13 -0700

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Model Credit: Tracey G.

"i do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged." - pauline hanson

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:10:45 -0800

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Model Credit: Deniz K.

“i want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because i love you that much.”

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:39:00 -0800

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Model Credit: Deniz K. & Kadie R.

"eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen." - theophile gautier

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:14:41 -0800

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"the creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. he is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept." - john w. gardner

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:27:41 -0800

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"i don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. it's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. i'm more fearful than i used to be." - robin gibb

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:40:32 -0700

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

Dedicated to friends of mine that have passed away. In their life, they taught me the meaning of friendship, smile, joy, laughter, sadness, trust and love. In their death, they made me understand how fragile human life is. They were here one minute, gone the next.

They died too young.

"open your eyes, look within. are you satisfied with the life you're living?" - bob marley

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:08:07 -0700

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"there's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." - paul bryant

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:03:59 -0700

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"beauty is about perception, not about make-up. i think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. you can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:43:42 -0700

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Model Credit: Michaella B. Quote By: Kevyn Aucoin

"i feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you." - bill withers

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:21:10 -0700

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"for oft, when on my couch I lie, in vacant or in pensive mood..." - william wordsworth

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:57:23 -0700

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”

'a woman said to me when she first sat down, you're photographing the wrong side of my face. i said, oh, is there one? - imogen cunningham

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:14:14 -0800

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"without music life would be a mistake." - friedrich wilhelm nietzsche

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:37:58 -0800

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. it is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?" - richard corliss

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:35:45 -0800

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Model Credit: Michaella B.

"we teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.” - sue johanson

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:41:52 -0800

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Sue Johanson, born March 16, 1930 is a Canadian writer, public speaker, registered nurse, educator, and media personality.

Johanson's work educating and informing the public about birth control and sexual health earned her Canada's highest honor, appointment to the Order of Canada in 2001, for lifetime achievement.

I was fortunate enough to do a quick portrait session with her in 2009, when she visited Wilfrid Laurier University as a keynote speaker.

"each body has its art..." - gwendolyn brooks

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:26:28 -0800

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Model Credit: Laura M.

"freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - martin luther king, jr.

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:54:51 -0800

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"For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with."
-Ginny B. Waite

Model Credit: Michaella B.

"both now and for always, i intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit." - andrei sakharov

nobody@flickr.com (yusufkidwai) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:32:13 -0800

yusufkidwai posted a photo:

Model Credit: Michaella B.