Amateur Photographer

Small faces

The saying goes, if you’re trilingual you speak three languages, bilingual two languages, one language, you’re English and I am very, very English. I have tried to learn; hundreds of hours of Rosetta Stone Russian, scores of meals with German, Spanish and Italian friends; not much has stuck. Being English, I do of course expect everyone else in the world to speak it. French photographer and artist Pauline Petit doesn’t. I did study French at school. I could tell her my name and ask her what’s on the table or through the window, that’s about it. I still watched hours of her YouTube videos, her energy is infectious. I mention

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