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I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

~Alison Jackson

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It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: About Absorb Always Appearance Been Born Difficult Faces Got Just Look Make Most Never Other People Pretty Realistic See Those Try Way Yourself

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Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Believing Complacency Deceitful Even False Know Leads Medium Necessarily Photography Sense Something Superficial Though True Us

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When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: About Am Because Character Convince Could Going Happened People Photographs Plausible Preparing Real Real People Think Viewer You I Think I Am

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If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Composing Constantly Everything Lens Pictures See Text Think Through You I Think

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Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: About Between Big Celebrities Celebrity Different Gap Image Images Life Look Our Real Real Life Them Themselves Work

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You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Always Anything Own Perception Proved Rely Wrong You Your

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I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Carry Did Drawings More Now Often People Photographs Rather Suppose Think Used Wish Wonderful I Think I Wish

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I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

~Alison Jackson

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Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Able Always Been Creative Feel Follow Lucky Path Very I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: May 15th, 1960

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