The Practice of Seeing

What do you see?

What do you actually know?
What are you assuming?

From first impression to deeper understanding.

Photography and storytelling as a practice of slowing down our conclusions, paying attention, getting closer, reconsidering what we think we know, and responding with more understanding.

From the Open Studios

Who is She?

Presented at Project Artaud Open Studios

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Asal seated during a painting activity, looking toward her work.

A practice, not a formula

Slow down your conclusions.

The Practice of Seeing creates space between what we notice, what we interpret, and what we conclude. It is a practice of Attention, Encounter, Reflection and Responsibility — and of looking again.

ATTENTION PAUSE What am I actually seeing?
ENCOUNTER APPROACH What can I learn if I get closer?
REFLECTION RECONSIDER What might I have misunderstood?
RESPONSIBILITY RESPOND What do I do with what I now understand?

Across all four: What am I assuming?

Two stories. One practice.

The projects are the doors.

Two loaded touring cyclists crossing a broad salt flat, one riding in the foreground and another in the distance.

The Gaze from the Bicycle

Presentation · Exhibition

Alaska → Tierra del Fuego

5 years · 14 countries · 20,000 miles / 32,000 km

For five years, I traveled by bicycle from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. The bicycle gave me the freedom to move independently and the time to get closer — to meet people, listen, and try to understand societies in constant transformation. The bicycle was not the subject of the journey. It was the way I moved through it.

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Two girls holding hands and dressed for a portrait in front of a temporary shelter.

Who is She?

Presentation · Exhibition

What happens when we think we already know?

Photographs are paired with questions and fragments of context. As information changes, so does what we think we see. The experience asks audiences to notice the distance between looking and knowing — and the assumptions that fill that gap.

“The photograph hasn't changed. You have.”

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Exhibition available online

How the stories can be experienced

Same practice. Different contexts.

Both projects can be shaped for different audiences without changing the practice itself. The examples, questions and depth of conversation adapt to the room.

PRESENTATIONS

Photography, firsthand storytelling and questions from the audience. The project becomes a shared conversation rather than a sequence of images.

EXHIBITIONS

Photographs in physical space, accompanied by questions and context that invite visitors to reconsider what they first thought they were seeing.

Schools · Universities · Organizations · Cultural institutions · Public spaces

From photographs to conversation

The audience is part of the work.

Marc Hors speaking to an audience during a photographic storytelling presentation. Students seated in a classroom during a Marc Hors photographic storytelling presentation.
400+ talks and presentations
Americas + Europe audiences across continents
English + Spanish presented in either language

Questions are not the end of the session. They are part of the story.

“How do your judgments, your assumptions, affect the way you photograph?”
“What do you know about yourself now that you didn't before?”
“How do you want to be seen?”

Your turn

What do you see?
What do you wonder?

The Practice of Seeing begins with questions. If a photograph or story stays with you, share the question it leaves behind. Your question can become part of the ongoing conversation.

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Bring The Practice of Seeing to your community

Schools. Universities. Organizations.
Cultural institutions. Public spaces.

Tell me about your audience and the conversation you want to create. We can shape The Gaze from the Bicycle or Who is She? as a presentation or exhibition for your context.

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See more. Assume less. Stay curious. Look again.

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