RUCHI MITAL: You once said something like art is my only refuge. Has that always been the case for you? Did your journey with the camera start when you were young? How did it come about?
OMAR GABRIEL: I realized at a later stage in my life that art has always been my refuge. I think it's a cliche to say, art heals me, or art allows me to be myself. I don't think it's that. You watched my films, and you got to discover a deeper layer of myself. And this deeper layer was not easily accepted, embraced or celebrated, because it's vulnerable, because it's not based on: ‘I have achieved this. I have this amount of money.
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