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“I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people, a number of artists, who were taking it very seriously and doing very imaginative work with Instagram as the medium.”

Stephen Shore

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I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

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