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way or another, almost everyone has collected photography. Whether it be snapshots
gathered into a photo album, framed family photographs hung on the wall, or Polaroids
clipped on the refrigerator door; all of these displays define various acts of
collecting. New technologies such as the digital camera and camera-enabled cell
phones have allowed people to capture and archive millions of pictures every
day.
In The Collectors series, I created intimate portraits
of photography collectors, gallery owners and art patrons among their
collections. Not only was I trying to see how people lived and
interacted with their art, but whether there was a difference between
the gaze of the photographer versus that of the collector and if there
was a unifying thread that connects people who collect.
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