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Stories of Photographing Monumental People (from Michelle Obama to Stephen Hawking) | Platon | TED

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43 Comments

  1. Sagc suryani12

    July 19, 2022 at 1:18 pm

    How about humanity? What a LGBT is free??

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    July 19, 2022 at 1:28 pm

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    It has began with the books by Allan Kardec and continued in the books by Francisco C. Xavier, the greatest and more important medium/prophet of spirits of the last centuries…

  3. Nathalie Lazo

    July 19, 2022 at 1:33 pm

    “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough” ― Oprah Winfrey ✨
    Being grateful is a TOTAL GAME CHANGER! ❤️

  4. jorgedefoe1

    July 19, 2022 at 1:41 pm

    Big Mike prolly got a semi over that.

  5. Cedar, Chanphà & Salvia

    July 19, 2022 at 1:45 pm

    “Monumental” is relative. Photographing famous people and turning them into “idols” is ridiculous.

  6. Аб дулла

    July 19, 2022 at 2:01 pm

    “The humane thread that binds people who are required or compelled to pay attention to people who are obliged by circumstance or prefer by disposition to let the always-cacophonous parade go by, is hope.”

    — *Andrew Mitrovica* ✍️

    ✍️✍️

  7. Аб дулла

    July 19, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    “The corrupt European politician is presented as a societal aberration, a negation of its wholesome values, while the corrupt African official is taken as the embodiment of African values.”

    ─ *Patrick Gathara* ✍️

  8. Roxana Torres

    July 19, 2022 at 2:06 pm

    Excellent, thank you 😊

  9. Андрей Бобков

    July 19, 2022 at 3:24 pm

    WTF!? The second photo wirh two girls… are you kidding? LGBT defence??? One of them stuffed raw chicken in her own vagina in the store. Besides that they both danced in the church with agressive, vulgar songs. That an awfal example! People are obsessed with LGBT agenda, as if there are not real problems in the world.

  10. ghanditw

    July 19, 2022 at 3:41 pm

    when we all start looking through each others eyes. THEN SHALL WE SEE THE REAL MONSTERS.

  11. John Ekow

    July 19, 2022 at 3:46 pm

    Interesting…

  12. Сергей Тищенко

    July 19, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    How nice that our president Putin is so popular in the West!

    • NotMe Us

      July 19, 2022 at 10:32 pm

      “Put these sunflower seeds in your pocket so pretty flowers will grow from your corpse when you die here”

  13. Hirmuinen Trolli

    July 19, 2022 at 4:15 pm

    What is monumental about Michelle Obama?

  14. Julie Davis

    July 19, 2022 at 4:22 pm

    Gorgeous moving repulsive tragic and hopeful

  15. Thankful Lally

    July 19, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    Great. God bless.👍👍

  16. Don Carlo

    July 19, 2022 at 6:37 pm

    Powerful.

  17. beautifulcrazy

    July 19, 2022 at 7:36 pm

    Brilliant

  18. beautifulcrazy

    July 19, 2022 at 7:48 pm

    A great story teller

  19. Annoymous Person

    July 19, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    Dear person reading this you are so precious!😀

  20. Solitary Reaper

    July 19, 2022 at 11:07 pm

    Michelle Obama and Monumental should not be used in the same sentence

  21. James Lasso

    July 19, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    If hardly call Michelle Obama a “ monumental” person

  22. 🇬█ 𝔎𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝔎alisari│

    July 20, 2022 at 12:11 am

    🌿🌍🌴 *Each of us has a role*
    to play in protecting our planet 🌎🌏

  23. 🇬█ 𝔎𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝔎alisari│

    July 20, 2022 at 12:11 am

    Maybe yes! *TED* ✓ 🌿 🤔.

    “ *Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people* .”

    – N. R. Narayana Murthy✍️

    ###
    .. .

  24. Ligia Sommers

    July 20, 2022 at 1:55 am

    Inspiring 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻✨

  25. Toni

    July 20, 2022 at 2:07 am

    Good work and very different. This photographer certainly got around.

  26. Agatha's Tea&Coffee Haus 아가사의 티앤커피하우스

    July 20, 2022 at 2:18 am

    Thanks for your speech! I scraped~

  27. Mark Moghadam

    July 20, 2022 at 6:45 am

    How much dark money can make corrupt show ?

  28. Макс Немо

    July 20, 2022 at 6:59 am

    Easy money 35

  29. Дмитрий Логинов

    July 20, 2022 at 8:42 am

    Busy head 07

  30. CrudeleSpina

    July 20, 2022 at 10:09 am

    OMG! Such a bad propaganda! :)))

  31. Dimityr Momukov

    July 20, 2022 at 10:36 am

    WOW !

  32. Олег Олегов

    July 20, 2022 at 11:15 am

    Alive door 61

  33. Ahmed Zawaaj

    July 20, 2022 at 11:34 am

    Were is somali😁

  34. cSeattle

    July 20, 2022 at 1:41 pm

    that was an amazing presentation.

  35. Thắng Nguyễn

    July 20, 2022 at 3:21 pm

    i love his presentation

  36. Tushar Jaiswar

    July 20, 2022 at 7:32 pm

    ted 2

  37. Omar Faruk

    July 21, 2022 at 2:32 am

    What a speech it is! 🥰

  38. Bill Syachrani

    July 21, 2022 at 3:05 am

    URAAAA…..

  39. 고봉밥

    July 21, 2022 at 5:10 am

    푸틴 사진이 놀라웠어요. 그가 영어를 매우 잘하는 사람이라는 것, 비틀군단과 비틀즈를 구분하여 영어로 말한다는 것. 그러나 누군가를 on the floor 하도록 만드는 푸틴의 “Yesterday” 선호는 언어학적 지식을 모두 일으킨다는 사실에 저도 두려웠습니다. 나는 아베의 얼굴을 무척 좋아했지만 아베의 결론은 우익으로 절대 친하지 말라는 가르침을 그가 죽고서야 만날 수 있었습니다. 내가 얼마나 오류를 많이 가진 본능적이고 직감적으로 행동하는 사람인지 이 강의는 무서웠습니다.

  40. 니은과 연음

    July 21, 2022 at 5:10 am

    푸틴 사진이 놀라웠어요. 그가 영어를 매우 잘하는 사람이라는 것, 비틀군단과 비틀즈를 구분하여 영어로 말한다는 것. 그러나 누군가를 on the floor 하도록 만드는 푸틴의 “Yesterday” 선호는 언어학적 지식을 모두 일으킨다는 사실에 저도 두려웠습니다. 나는 아베의 얼굴을 무척 좋아했지만 아베의 결론은 우익으로 절대 친하지 말라는 가르침을 그가 죽고서야 만날 수 있었습니다. 내가 얼마나 오류를 많이 가진 본능적이고 직감적으로 행동하는 사람인지 이 강의는 무서웠습니다.

  41. alcohkid

    July 24, 2022 at 3:50 pm

    Now, this has been the best TED-talk i’ve ever witnessed on youtube…

  42. _ThatWhatchtower

    July 25, 2022 at 12:29 pm

    It’s a cultural moment where all these satanic SoLLUMINATI the mob all the evil ones wanna take over America, they’ve been replacing a lot of politicians with actors and in the music industry pretty sure they’re killing them. America you need to stand up against satanic and all these evil liars.

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