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“Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?”

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By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

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I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

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