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It began during the spring semester in my junior year of college. The first photography critique of that semester did not go well. at. all. My photography professor said she was worried about me and was questioning why I was even there. So I cried and it was a bit of a low point. But a few days later, inspiration struck like someone hitting me on the head to tell me I "could've had a v8".

My epiphany? Diptychs.

I was then introduced to the work of photographer Rafael Navarro via his book "Dípticos". Sitting on the floor next to the bookshelves in my professor's office, it was love at first sight. I just wanted to stare at some of them for hours, trying to figure out why he chose to put those two images together. Never before had I been so captivated by a photographer's work. I still search online for the book, in the hopes of someday owning it.

So, the above image is one in a series of diptychs I created during a summer class following that fateful semester. They were the biggest I had ever printed, 16x24. That fall they were on display in a show with 2 of my other classmates. My professor never said anything to me about them, but she did tell her other classes to go see our show. I secretly hoped that was her way of saying I didn't suck so bad after all. Guess I'll never really know, but I'm proud of what I created then, and there are definitely plans to do more.


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