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PRC- Opening

Here's a look at the show at the PRC.  Thanks to all who came out to the opening and the PRC's Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis, Program & Exhibition Manager and Glenn Ruga
Executive Director for the invitation to show this project, Being 13.  Also, thank you to my printer, Live Free Photography, and my framer CC Moore Fine Art Framing for an awesome job and to Zoe, for letting me photograph her over the course of her year being 13.  

 


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