TENTAKL

A Photographer Rediscovers The Crumbling Remains Of Tatooine

In Star Wars (or Episode IV if you want to be like that), Luke Skywalker spends the first 15 minutes whining about his misfortune for having been born on Tatooine. He can’t go to Beggar’s Canyon to shoot womp rats with pals because he has to work his uncle’s moisture farm. Then he has to clean the new droids before suffering through a perfunctory family meal that ends in a storm-out, his ego bruised and dreams momentarily crushed.Of course, fate (or destiny, in Lucas’s lexicon) would provide Luke with an escape.

“When I graduated from college, Patrick Stewart, aka Jean Luq Picard, Captain of the Starship Enterprise, gave the commencement speech. As an Art Major, our group was the first to receive our diplomas (alphabetical order). So I was the 7th person or so to graduate. When I walked on stage to receive my diploma, I went out of my way to shake the hand of Mr. Stewart - you know, cause he’s the Captain of the flipping Enterprise and I’m a total geek. What followed was the entire graduating class (a couple thousand) going out of their way to shake his hand. After about the 500th person, I started feeling pretty guilty about it.”