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Urban Pulse: Rome
“Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality”—a sensitive vision from the streets of Rome, where the photographer went in search of the sublime.
Photographs and text by Lara Kantardjian
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When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
—Andrei Tarkovsky

Wandering the streets like a spectator from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, always seeing, feeling, and connecting to everything. I’m in search of a certain mood, a certain light, from the ordinary to the sublime.

—Lara Kantardjian

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