Toby Tan-De SouzaPHILOSOPHY · EDUCATION · PUBLIC LIFE
OBSERVATIONS

Ideas emerge somewhere.

Looking carefully, listening closely and paying attention to context. These images are notes from places and moments that have shaped how I think and teach.

Ideas in practice — Chiang Mai, Thailand. A classroom is where abstraction meets language, context and the learner in front of you.
TEACHING

Ideas in practice

Chiang Mai, Thailand. A classroom is where abstraction meets language, context and the learner in front of you.

What becomes visible — The Great Barrier Reef. Looking carefully changes what can be noticed, valued and understood.
ATTENTION

What becomes visible

The Great Barrier Reef. Looking carefully changes what can be noticed, valued and understood.

The more-than-human world — An encounter that resists abstraction and recalls the ethical force of environmental philosophy.
ENCOUNTER

The more-than-human world

An encounter that resists abstraction and recalls the ethical force of environmental philosophy.

Living alongside — Attention can unsettle familiar divisions between observer, subject and environment.
RELATION

Living alongside

Attention can unsettle familiar divisions between observer, subject and environment.

A moment that no longer exists — Photography records neither a place alone nor a person alone, but a relation held briefly in time.
TIME

A moment that no longer exists

Photography records neither a place alone nor a person alone, but a relation held briefly in time.

Sometimes looking carefully is enough.