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- ↑ "Slow Exposures: Celebrating Photography of the Rural South » Slow Salutes". Slow Exposures: Celebrating Photography of the Rural South.
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- ↑ Chelsea Matiash, Images of Love, Loss and 'Confessions', February 12, 2014
- ↑ Sam Whiting Photographer's project captures faces of strangers on a train, San Francisco Chronicle , May 13, 2015