Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman

Have you ever planned to attended a lecture not expecting much, perhaps even thinking it will be boring... Well, Andrew Zuckerman's talk about his Wisdom series was just the opposite of that! Right from the beginning he established a connection with the audience, and shared his passion generously. To me, this was one of those fortunate opportunities, where I found myself at an event, which left me thinking for days to come.

On October 16, 2008 photographer Andrew Zuckerman gave a talk at the opening of his exhibition, titled Wisdom. Through his work Zuckerman hopes to revive the tradition of the elders being the wise members of the tribe, and to helps us realize that we are a collective group, which possesses an enormous amount of knowledge and experience. He interviewed and photographed 51 people over the age of 65, whom we consider to be wise. Those include Nelson Mandela, Clint Eastwood and Judi Dench.

The exhibition is currently still running until November 16th at the State Library of New South Wales. The exhibition space is set up beautifully and simply, utilizing only black and white colors with clean typography along the walls. If you have a chance, go see it!




In addition to the exhibition, Andrew Zuckerman also produced a book and a movie with the same title, Wisdom. Here is the movie trailer. May we find the wisdom within ourselves and share it with the world.



The full video of the talk and some additional "behind the scenes" videos are available on the State Library website here [long link].