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" My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. "

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" So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light. "

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