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1. Start with Family and Friends
2. Photographing Kids
3. Shooting Strangers on the Sly
4. Capturing People on the Job
5. Make the Most of Festivals
6. Approaching Strangers
7. Couples Add Warmth
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"In the summer of 1958 the young King Feisal of Iraq was assassinated, leaving his contemporary and close relative King Hussein of Jordan isolated upon his own threatened throne. I was in Jordan when, a few days later, Hussein made a public declaration about the tragedy. His face was lined and tired, and moisture glistened in the corners of his eyes. Ministers, officials, officers and security guards were grouped behind his chair. Clearing his throat huskily, the King said slowly: 'I have now had confirmation of the murder of my cousin, brother and childhood playmate, King Feisal of Iraq, and all his royal family.' …And raising his head from his notes, Hussein added in his strange formal English: 'They are only the last in a caravan of martyrs.'"—Jan Morris, from the book Contact! A Book of Encounters, highlighted in the latest Trip Lit column.
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Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna, Austria, to set designers Johannes Waltz and Elisabeth Urbancic. His grandparents were also actors, and his great-grandparents worked in the theatre. He studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He started as a stage actor, playing at venues like Zurich's Schauspielhaus Zürich, Vienna's Burgtheater, or the Salzburg Festival. He became a prolific actor on television. In 2000 he directed his first film, the TV production Wenn man sich traut. In Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Waltz portrayed Standartenführer Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter". For this role, he received the Best Actor Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and has received acclaim for the performance from critics and the public. Tarantino acknowledged the importance of Waltz to his film by stating: "I think that Landa is one of the best characters I've ever written and ever will write, and Christoph played it to a tee… It's true that if I couldn't have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made Inglourious Basterds.Waltz is fluent in German, French and English and speaks all three languages in Inglourious Basterds. Though he also spoke Italian in "Inglourious Basterds" he stated on the Adam Carolla Podcast that he does not actually speak Italian. He is divorced and has four children. He currently lives in London.