![]() ![]() ![]() Limited special edition of 40 with a toned gelatin silver print (11 x 17 cm). When we think about the beginnings of our planet, everything seemed to be far more interlinked. ' is a symbolic trip from where humans are now and moving backwards to the origins of the earth.To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan. in his 1994 book, 'Pale Blue Dot', Carl Sagan comments on what he sees as the greater significance of the photograph: ".There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. ![]() This humbling view of Earth from 6 billion km away is known as the 'Pale Blue Dot.' The photograph is the one showing planet Earth, taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers, as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. ' is a homage to both an iconic photograph and an iconic person. Pale Blue Dot is about a new recognition, still slowly overtaking us, of our coordinates, our place in the Universe and how, even if the call of the open. ![]()
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