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RaMell Ross

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Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And those are the moments that endear you so much to the person that when they do something horrible or they make some mistake where it's just like, You're not the sum of that. That's just one thing. I know you really well. And so how do we account for the fact that almost every image made by every other person that's been disseminated to represent them has never been those images?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And those are the moments that endear you so much to the person that when they do something horrible or they make some mistake where it's just like, You're not the sum of that. That's just one thing. I know you really well. And so how do we account for the fact that almost every image made by every other person that's been disseminated to represent them has never been those images?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And those are the moments that endear you so much to the person that when they do something horrible or they make some mistake where it's just like, You're not the sum of that. That's just one thing. I know you really well. And so how do we account for the fact that almost every image made by every other person that's been disseminated to represent them has never been those images?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

It's government, news, reportage, street photography, always in the intent of someone else who has no family relationship to you. So you have to ask yourself, what if every image made by every other person across time had always been as if that person was your brother or sister. I think we would have a different relationship to humanity at large.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

It's government, news, reportage, street photography, always in the intent of someone else who has no family relationship to you. So you have to ask yourself, what if every image made by every other person across time had always been as if that person was your brother or sister. I think we would have a different relationship to humanity at large.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

It's government, news, reportage, street photography, always in the intent of someone else who has no family relationship to you. So you have to ask yourself, what if every image made by every other person across time had always been as if that person was your brother or sister. I think we would have a different relationship to humanity at large.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And I love your take a picture and it doesn't represent the thing entry point because everyone knows that. But if you... start to question why and you start to look for strategies to account for that, you get to a film, you will get to a film like this. You will get to Hell County this morning, this evening. It's just not settling for that and making that a mission.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And I love your take a picture and it doesn't represent the thing entry point because everyone knows that. But if you... start to question why and you start to look for strategies to account for that, you get to a film, you will get to a film like this. You will get to Hell County this morning, this evening. It's just not settling for that and making that a mission.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And I love your take a picture and it doesn't represent the thing entry point because everyone knows that. But if you... start to question why and you start to look for strategies to account for that, you get to a film, you will get to a film like this. You will get to Hell County this morning, this evening. It's just not settling for that and making that a mission.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, what a decision in hindsight. I moved there in 2009 and I was freelancing in D.C. and just I couldn't really afford to live. And my roommate had a connection to an organization called Project M, which is a design build organization. organization out of MICA that was doing workshops in Hale County, Alabama. And he was like, I'm going to go. Do you want to come?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, what a decision in hindsight. I moved there in 2009 and I was freelancing in D.C. and just I couldn't really afford to live. And my roommate had a connection to an organization called Project M, which is a design build organization. organization out of MICA that was doing workshops in Hale County, Alabama. And he was like, I'm going to go. Do you want to come?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, what a decision in hindsight. I moved there in 2009 and I was freelancing in D.C. and just I couldn't really afford to live. And my roommate had a connection to an organization called Project M, which is a design build organization. organization out of MICA that was doing workshops in Hale County, Alabama. And he was like, I'm going to go. Do you want to come?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And so I there was an opportunity through chatting with folks to teach a two week photography course there. And so I go to teach photography and I'm like, whoa, this place is incredible.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And so I there was an opportunity through chatting with folks to teach a two week photography course there. And so I go to teach photography and I'm like, whoa, this place is incredible.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And so I there was an opportunity through chatting with folks to teach a two week photography course there. And so I go to teach photography and I'm like, whoa, this place is incredible.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Mostly the sense of time. You know, when you go to the historic South or any place that is storied in that way, that I like to say that. The iconography of the South is so spread out where you can have dreams and you can have more dreams and nightmares in between icons than you can in the city.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Mostly the sense of time. You know, when you go to the historic South or any place that is storied in that way, that I like to say that. The iconography of the South is so spread out where you can have dreams and you can have more dreams and nightmares in between icons than you can in the city.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Mostly the sense of time. You know, when you go to the historic South or any place that is storied in that way, that I like to say that. The iconography of the South is so spread out where you can have dreams and you can have more dreams and nightmares in between icons than you can in the city.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because in the cities, especially because stuff is always refreshed and they're always doing renovations and there's so much money and so much people and it's so dense, you're always engaging with people.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because in the cities, especially because stuff is always refreshed and they're always doing renovations and there's so much money and so much people and it's so dense, you're always engaging with people.