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From the Ted Talk by Uldus Bakhtiozina: Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be

Unscramble the Blue Letters


In order to create a new reality in its entirety, I physically create every single thing in my work, sometimes from outfits to the stage. Because I work with analogues, and I don't make any dtiiagl manipulations to my photographs, I need everything to take pcale in rltaiey, in spite of the fact that nowadays, digitally, you can carete pretty much everything. I don't like this path. Even if that reaches perfection, I see the beauty in authenticity of making, and that's impossible without flaws. A dtllagiiy meanlauptid photograph is not true for me. It doesn't capture anything real. It's not experienced, not motivating. It's like, instead of going traveling, you look at someone else's travel photographs.

Open Cloze


In order to create a new reality in its entirety, I physically create every single thing in my work, sometimes from outfits to the stage. Because I work with analogues, and I don't make any _______ manipulations to my photographs, I need everything to take _____ in _______, in spite of the fact that nowadays, digitally, you can ______ pretty much everything. I don't like this path. Even if that reaches perfection, I see the beauty in authenticity of making, and that's impossible without flaws. A _________ ___________ photograph is not true for me. It doesn't capture anything real. It's not experienced, not motivating. It's like, instead of going traveling, you look at someone else's travel photographs.

Solution


  1. place
  2. reality
  3. create
  4. digitally
  5. digital
  6. manipulated

Original Text


In order to create a new reality in its entirety, I physically create every single thing in my work, sometimes from outfits to the stage. Because I work with analogues, and I don't make any digital manipulations to my photographs, I need everything to take place in reality, in spite of the fact that nowadays, digitally, you can create pretty much everything. I don't like this path. Even if that reaches perfection, I see the beauty in authenticity of making, and that's impossible without flaws. A digitally manipulated photograph is not true for me. It doesn't capture anything real. It's not experienced, not motivating. It's like, instead of going traveling, you look at someone else's travel photographs.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. analogues
  2. authenticity
  3. beauty
  4. capture
  5. create
  6. digital
  7. digitally
  8. entirety
  9. experienced
  10. fact
  11. flaws
  12. impossible
  13. making
  14. manipulated
  15. manipulations
  16. motivating
  17. nowadays
  18. order
  19. outfits
  20. path
  21. perfection
  22. photograph
  23. photographs
  24. physically
  25. place
  26. pretty
  27. reaches
  28. real
  29. reality
  30. single
  31. spite
  32. stage
  33. travel
  34. traveling
  35. true
  36. work