This TED Talk features photographer Leave On This, recorded live at TED 2017.

So, I had been a photographer for 18 years before I began the micro-sculpture project,

and in that time, I'd shot global ad campaigns, I had the opportunity to photograph some of my

generations and icons,

and I was travelling the world. You know, I got to a point in my career that I dreamed of

getting to, and yet for some reason, I still felt a little bit unfulfilled.

You know, despite the extraordinary things I was shooting and experiencing, they'd started

to feel a little bit ordinary to me. And I was shooting and experiencing, they'd started to feel a little bit

ordinary to me. And I was also getting concerned about how disposable photography had started

to feel in the digital world. And I really wanted to produce images that had a sense of worth again.

And I needed a subject that felt extraordinary. Sometimes I wish I had the eyes of a child,

and by that I mean I wish I could look at the world

in the same way as I did when I was a small boy.

I think there's a danger as we get older

that our curiosity becomes slightly muted or dulled by familiarity.

And as a visual creator, one of the challenges for me is to present the familiar

in a new and engaging way.

Fortunately for me, though,

I've got two great kids who are still curious about the world.

Sebastian, he's still curious about the world,

and in 2014, in spring,

he brought in a ground beetle from the garden.

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