Comments on: Christopher Capozziello – The Distance Between Us https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: East River | burn magazine https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-219391 Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:42:57 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-219391 […] CEO of Aperture; Chris Capozziello, self publishing photographer (featured on Burn with his essay The Distance Between Us); Olga Yatskevich founder of 10×10 Photobooks; and Nina Pollari, publishing projects […]

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-218249 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:39:35 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-218249 Wow! My brother! No, your brother. My brother was born and raised healthy. The affliction came later. Yet, your brother is my brother. You are me and I am you, even though we are not at all the same.

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-208939 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:13:07 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-208939 Patricia

I love what you have just written here. You obviously live it.

“live the lives you have been given with no excuses, wishful thinking, or half truths.”

This, and John Gs

“No, life is not fair and justice is all too often a commodity, but there is magic everywhere. Just because your dreams may not come true is no reason to stop dreaming. ”

should be on all our bathroom mirrors.

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By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-208755 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:52:07 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-208755 Christopher, when I see magnificent photos and read honest captions like you have brought to the world in telling Nick’s story, I am reminded that the “why” is less important than the “who” – who Nick is, who you, his twin brother, are, who your parents are, and who comes into his life as friend, teacher, medical provider, helper.

These are among the most powerful photos I have ever seen. They show with unremitting clarity what life is like for another. In many ways they feel like self portraits. I am in awe of your courage and Nick’s courage. You both live the lives you have been given with no excuses, wishful thinking or half truths. You are the real deal and what else is there? In sharing Nick’s life with us, you give us the courage to follow his example and be who we are with no excuses, wishful thinking or half truths. I thank you both for this gift and wish you well.

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By: Nathan Pearce https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-207435 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:19:52 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-207435 I have seen this essay in a few other places..
I think some of the images here in this edit are new to me.

I always love this work..
Some of these images really stick with me and I will find myself
thinking of them weeks later.. That doesn’t happen with many essays

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By: bob black https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-207415 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:12:21 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-207415 “..by allowing you to give up magic thinking and get on with your life. As for the essay, I think it is good photography; but, I don’t know that shines any new light on an old subject.”jim powers

the new light on an old subject always comes from the continual re-telling, for in the stories of others, whether in grief or in celebration, we find ourselves renewed and anew, because others’ stories are our stories and they’re all the same, only the grief and celebration looks different. and that magical thinking comes from just that: the conjuring of the moments or the words to set that darkness ringing again. for it is in the willingness to express and to share and to build upon with lighted love that all that alchemy, including that of which we cannot understand, begins to pop and foam and fizzle into the waking beauty of things….

one can and should love and dream without the need to have it realized, for it is the living and loving itself that transforms and makes the greatest solution….there are no solutions nor answers but in the living and loving itself….

an, um, yea: the essay, magnificent and inspiring, (like much of Christopher’s work) not because of the difficult dividing reality of the subject matter (thought that too) but because of the bone at the center of its heart: the shuttling of the life of a person determined to yield life in all its living, and against profound physical odds as they…

the refusal to give in or give up…

aint that what life does anyway, it comes raging full tilt…why not we, its children and hungry ones….

thanks for sharing christopher

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By: john gladdy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-207390 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 15:43:49 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-207390 I must have been drunk.

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By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-207175 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:57:44 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-207175 JOHN GLADDY

that is the single wisest thing you have ever written here…thank you

cheers, david

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By: tom hyde https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-206484 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:23:13 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-206484 Well said.

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By: john gladdy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-206119 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:14:33 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-206119 Jim. No, life is not fair and justice is all too often a commodity, but there is magic everywhere.
and Just because your dreams may not come true is no reason to stop dreaming.

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By: eva https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-206092 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:54:52 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-206092 Chris, we share a number of things, among these the reason to photograph. Some questions will never be answered, the feeling of responsibility and guilt will, I think, never go away, but we learn to live with it.

Focusing on the day to day normality is the best way, and you showing us with your pictures exactly this is great.

I’m looking forward to see the whole book, and wish you and Nick the best!

Thank you!

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By: Jim Powers https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-205957 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:14:36 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-205957 Life is not fair and there is rarely justice in the end. Accepting that reality early in life will make things much better for you by allowing you to give up magic thinking and get on with your life. As for the essay, I think it is good photography; but, I don’t know that shines any new light on an old subject.

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By: dellicson https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-205604 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:54:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-205604 You should check out Christopher Hitchens.

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By: mtomalty https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-205087 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:51:35 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-205087 Very powerful,Christopher
Image #9,as the essay is currently laid out (Nick in bed with bandages on his head),is spectacular
and haunting and will be one of the few images that will stay with me out of the 1000’s I’ve seen
this year. His eyes so many emotions that one cannot look away.

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By: Virgil DiBiase https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-204358 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:12:17 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-204358 Christopher, so damn good. Palpably intimate. Honest stuff. You honor yourself and your bro with this work. I see he has a deep brain stimulator implanted. I hope it helps. Bravo and I know this will take you far….at least in terms of healing.

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-204180 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:42:48 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-204180 Congratulations Christopher

Thanks for this. Photographing something so close, and so painful, is difficult. And yet somehow it helps us deal with it, and validates our pain. It is also an expression of love. His pain is your pain.

Good luck with your project. I hope it helps you both come to terms with the in-justice of it all. I hope it helps you forgive yourself.

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By: Cesar https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-204151 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:35:12 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-204151 Powerful project!…
The best for you and your brother.

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By: Carlo https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/08/christopher-capozziello-the-distance-between-us/#comment-204101 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:04:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=17932#comment-204101 A touching project…it sunk my heart.
I cannot imagine how this affects the entire family and not just you Christopher.
Wishing you all the best.

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