This TED Talk features photographer and visual artist Yoldus back to Yosina, recorded live at TED 2017.

I'm often asked why I do art, what do I want to say with my art photography, and what is the use of it?

Once in a while, I start to worry

how to actually measure the impact from the arts,

like we do with medicine or technology,

where we can see the results and calculate it.

Then I would finally be able to explain my mother, my art, with real numbers.

But my art is so far from metrics,

and moreover, my photography is widely exposing theme of escapism.

My theory is that all of us struggle sometimes to escape

in order to analyze our reality, appreciate it or change.

I don't work with daily life as it is,

and I'm not a documentary photographer in the common sense,

but I am a documentary photographer in a different sense.

I document dreams.

I work with daily life as it could be, as I imagine it.

I'm a daydreamer,

but at the same time, I love things that are authentic and

deals with our innermost nature, which I would never want to escape from. I adore complicated

personalities, and real life inspires me to create my images.

Real life inspires our escape,

and sometimes that escape is very needed.

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