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"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
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"That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal."
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