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How Masahisa Fukase and his art changed me

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If I asked you what your favorite sunset is, you would probably think of a day you were sitting alone or with a friend and consciously thought, 'Huh the sky today is pretty'. You might have had this thought hundreds of times but you can barely remember any of those beautiful sunsets. I used to think a lot about our ability to forget beautiful things and this made me take a lot of pictures, this helped me soothe whenever I was missing someone or something. Around a year ago, I was looking at a photo book by Masahisa Fukase called 'Ravens' and felt so many emotions that left me thinking about him for two days straight. Fukase is from Hokkaido, a beautiful city in Japan. He was scared of death and missing out on moments that mattered, so he would capture everything. Fukase would click pictures that would win him many accolades, in fact, the photobook I was looking at is his magnum opus and is considered the best photo book by many critics. Professional success never filled...