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Finding your inspiration

Finding your inspiration

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Finding your inspiration

- For me finding a personal project was a way to kind of break free of the shackles put on me by my newspaper photography job at the time. So I was looking for a personal project. And I wanted it to be kind of general enough so that I could really get out there and experiment, do things very differently from what I was used to. And I read an article that talked about how my country Canada, where I was living at the time was becoming more like the United States. And it struck me that you know, if that's true, maybe we'll start to look more like the United States. And I decided this would be my project. I would travel the states closest to Canada from Maine to Alaska, I'd do a road trip and see what the United States looked like closet to the border. And that's what I did. I traveled over a summer, and I brought with me different equipment than I normally use in my newspaper job. Just because I wanted to feel like I'm doing photography just for me. And it was just an extraordinary road…

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