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VY NGUYEN Master of Architecture 2016 Kansas State University vynguyen1021@gmail.com 415.964.9844
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VY NGUYEN
415.964.9844 vynguyen1021@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
DIGITAL SKILLSET
PHYSICAL SKILLSET
ACTIVITIES
EXPERIENCES
Master of Architecture Kansas State University/Manhattan, KS Study Abroad Centro Studi Citta di Orvieto/Umbria, Italy Enhanced intercultural awareness by international student and local community interaction.
May 2016 January - May 2015
Rhino, Grasshopper, SketchUp Pro, Revit, Autocad, 3DS Max Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Indesign Premier Pro, Affter Effect Drafting, Sketching, Sculpting, Hand Modeling, Painting Photography, PC Building Women in Design APD Pro Member Cuu Long Pottery Manufacturing and Trading Co Vinh Long, Vietnam Designed pottery model products
2010-2016
Professional Photographer and Videographer Experienced operating different type of cammeras, and lenses, etc. Portrait and event photography Travel and architecture Photography
2015-2016
K-State 48 Hours Film Festival Second Prize and Audience Choice Adward of short film “The Sketch” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNpEK3pSkU
March 2016
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REAL EXPERIENCE 8
CONTENTS Family Coffee Shop
GRADUATE PROJECTS 12
2028 Vancouver Olympic Masterplan
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Main Media Complex
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Parametric Fabrication
UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS 62
Crossroads Community Library
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Modern Art Museum
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Manhattan Public Library
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Flint Hills Craft Center
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Stavanger Urban Intervention
OTHER TALENT 122
Artistic
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Photography
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FAMILY COFFEE SHOP
This is a real life project that I worked with other architects in Vietnam to help my friend design her coffee shop. This was an interesting experience to learn from the professional architectural pracrtice after school. From this small project, I have earned a great deal of knowlege from dealing with client, team working, branding, etc.
SUMMER 2016
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2028 VANCOUVER OLYMPIC MASTERPLAN
In the fall of 2015, our graduate architectural design studio, instructed by Nathan Howe, took on the task of evaluating Vancouver for a proposed 2028 Summer Olympic bid. The site we focused on the Olympic Park and Village was False Creek Flats, a primarily industrial and poverty stricken residential area. The site was determined to be a good opportunity to redevelop and revive an eyesore of the city. Our major concern for the site was designing for the future and creating a lasting legacy for Vancouver not only designing for the temporary 2028 Summer Olympics.
www.parametricallydriven.wordpress.com Fall 2015
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BRING THE WATER BACK The introduction of water back into the site creates a salt marsh, which will be a defining feature and driving force of the Master Plan. The site is then stitched together through a network of pedestrian paths weaving throughout the salt marsh. The pedestrian paths and connection between locations of importance, which furthermore helps organize reenergize the flows of activities, and densify the False Creek Flat to celebrate the gate way to downtown Vancouver. 17
Existing Context
Nodes as Venues
Anchor point & Grid
Inbetween Space
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Programming
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Zoning
Bioswale
Bio Layers
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MAIN MEDIA COMPLEX
Vancouver, BC, Canada Spring 2016
In the Spring of 2016, each student undertook the design of a venue within the Vancouver 2028 Summer Olympic Master Plan. I personally decided to take on the task of designing the Main Media Complex (MMC). Looking at Vancouver’s cultural complex can inform the MMC’s “second life,” or Post-Olympic reconstruction. Vancouver is ranked as one of the most diverse cities worldwide, fostering it to become a “cultural hub” with a lively art and culture sense. Vancouver’s cultural facilities are essential to its communities and are key to the economic health of the city. By integrating art and culture into the main MMC, the community will be engaged in a way they never could have imagined in the False Creek Flats area.
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PRIVATE OFFICES 3% PUBLIC SPACE 12% ASSEMBLY 13% SUPPORT 22% WORKROOM 50%
During Olympic PROGRAM
MAIN PRESS CENTER 12,600 M2
TOTAL 108,820 M2
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BROADCAST SERVICE 1%
SUPPORT 6%
PUBLIC SPACE 2%
FOOD HALL 32%
SUPPORT SPACES 15%
SUPPLIER RETAIL 62%
COMMERCIAL ZONE 30,540 M2
RHB ZONES 82%
BROADCAST CENTER 65,685 M2
STUDIO
EDUCATION
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BC PLACE BEACH VOLLEYBALL AQUATIC HOSPITAL TRANSIT HUB TRAIN TRACK VELODROME VILLAGE STADIUM
SITEPLAN 26
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CULTURAL FACILITIES ARE DISTRIBUTED MOSTLY ALONG THE STREETS GOING TOWARDs DOWNTOWN
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PROPOSED NEW CULTURAL HUB IN A NEW FALSE CREEK FLATS ALONG THE COUPLET GOING TOWARDS DOWNTOWN
SITE
This is the ideal location for the purpose of transforming the media center into a main cultural center of the new development of False Creek Flats / Olympic Park and a valuable asset to the City of Vancouver attracting young talented people. 29
TERMINAL AVENUE TO DOWNTOWN The site is located adjacent to terminal avenue, terminating the west end of Olympic master plan.
TRAIN TRACKS The historical train track and proposed sky train going to downtown, passing along on the northern area of the site.
CLUSTER The purpose of venues’ location clustered along the salt mash is to densify the area and create nice pedestrian friendly paths with full of activities. SITE CONDITION Looking at the site physical condition in order to design a program complex that is strongly weave into the urban fabric. 30
WALKING RADIUS 500 meters radius from the center point of the site marks the range of comfortable walking area.
VIEW CORRIDORS Good views along the South side to salt marsh totally open the nature magnificent.
SENSORY Sensory analysis explores the factors that excite the public flows in the physical setting of the site. such as attracting views, natural elements as trees and water.
GREEN WAY The salt marsh creates a great natural habitat becoming an ecological niche in the city. This informs designing green short cut linking from the salt marsh and the existing park in the north side of the train tracks.
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SCALE TO CITY BLOCK Divide the blocks of the parks in the North side of the train tracks into even segments
GENERATE GRID WINGS Extend the segments’ endpoints into lines cutting through the site. These segments also separate the programs.
CONTROLLING THE CORES The lines from segments’ mid points controls the cores’ orientation.
ONE IN A WHOLE This process of weaving into urban fabric takes advantage of the division method from city blocks., which helps unify the design program and elements. 32
PINCH TO CREATE ACCESS TO SECOND PUBLIC LEVEL Bottom and top curves control the public level.
STRUCTURES The structures are created based on the grid base.
FLOOR PLATES Floor plates and program within it are also created from the grid base.
ELEMENTS IN CONTROL The main elements of the design are generated from the division lines and blocks from the existing city block. 33
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Sky Park
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Circulation As Program
Reroute Circulation
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Flows
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SCREEN
FLOOR PLATES
MAIN PUBLIC FLOOR
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PUBLIC PERMEABILITY VERTICAL CONNECTION SERVICE CORE 37
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FORMATION OF VERTICAL GREEN ENVIRONMENT
The next step of creating a green living and working environment to blur the line between natural and built environment is articulating the typical tall building to distribute more space for natural vegetation.
SEPARATE PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC FLOORS
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TYPICAL BUILDING AND TREES
ARTICULATE IN LAYERS
CREATING NICHES
ECOLOGICAL NICHES ATTRACT HUMAN SENSES AND ACTIVITIES
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SERVICE CORES DISPLAY
CIRCULATION
RAMP GALLERY
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INTERNAL VS. EXTERNAL EXPERIENCE
EXTROVERT VS. INTROVERT
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DESIGN TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY 44
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ELEVATED MIX USED BAR
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ACCESS TO SECOND PUBLIC LEVEL
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RETAIL SPACE
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PUBLIC PLAZA
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PARAMETRIC FABRICATION
Fall 2015
At the inception of the Fall 2015 semester, students in the College of Architecture, Planning and Design (CAPD) were relocated to APD West while their long-established home, Seaton Hall, underwent construction. Upon arriving at the new swing space, APD West, Nathan Howe’s graduate architecture studio decided to tackle the lack of lounge seating. We designed and fabricated the SPINE (Studio Parametric Integrated Network Element), a parametric seating element to be used by CAPD students, faculty and staff. Our success would depend on teamwork, cooperation and our ability to problem solve.
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Control Curves
Bottom Curves
Top Curves
Division Curves
Single Unit
Multiplication
Formation
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ASSEMBLY The final design allowed for flexibility to freely adjust the angle and add or subtract members from the joints. A majority of the assembly process was dependent upon the joints. Finding a structurally sound and aesthetically pleasing joint was a key to the SPINE’s success.
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CROSSROADS COMMUNITY LIBRARY FALL 2014
Crossroads district is located near downtown Kansas City. More and more residents move to the area resulting in the increasing need for parking spaces. The project calls for a community library and a multi-level parking structure on a site which is currently being used as a parking lot. The challenge is not only to design a landmark facility for public demand, but also have to maintain the efficiency of parking.
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Program
Urban Edge
Widen Sidewalk
Urban Scale
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9. Roof 8. Floor Three 7. Floor Two 6. Auditorium 5. Steel Frame Structure 4. Glass Block core 3. Service 2. Overhang bars 1. Plinth
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The concept of glass block core is to separate the library and the parking structure, house the main circulation connecting all the key areas and programs. Using glass block allows bringing natural light into and illuminate the ambient light into the interior during daytime and reflect light into the outside during nighttime. This image presents as a navigational beacon on Main Street. The overhang horizontal bars play as a contrast tectonic to to vertical of the glass block core, house the auditorium and cafe area. The higher location within the library of the bars and its openness let inhabitants capture the city view at best and still maintain a “reaching out and welcoming� gesture to people outside the library.
Transition of view Capture city movement Rooftop outdoor
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Inside vs. Outsite
Flow Though The Core
View Within Library
Lighting Experience
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1. Coping 2. Block 3. Flashing 4. Vapor Control Membrane 5. Insulation 6. Rigid Insulation 7. Aluminum 8. Glass Spacer 9. Tempered Glass 10. Reinforced Concrete Beam 11. Raised Wood Panel 12. Hollow Steel Tube 13. Concrete Slab 14. Ceiling Hanger 15. Suspended Ceiling 16. Engineered Soil 17. Foundation Wall 18. Insulation 19. Drain Pipe 20. Footing 21. Vertical Louver 22. Louver Connection 23. Mullion 24. Glazing Bead 25. Synthetic Rubber 26. Setting Block 27. Weep Hole 68
OVERHANG BAR CONNECTION 1. Glass Spacer 2. Aluminum Frame 3. Steel Sheet 4. Hollow Steel Tube 5. Steel Anchor 6. Flashing 7. Synthetic Rubber 8. Block 9. Gravel 10. Insulation 11. Vapor Control Layer 12. Concrete 13. Hollow Steel Tube
GLASS BLOCK WALL 1. Concrete Block 2. Steel Plate 3. Glass Block 4. Insulation 5. Mortar 6. Seal 7. Stainless Steel Rebar 8. Block 9. Screw Fixing
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View to Lobby
Rooftop Garden
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Gallery Entrance
View From Alley
Main Street Facade
Auditorium View
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MODERN ART MUSEUM
The site is located on 13th street between 2nd and 3rd Ave, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, Newyork. Adjacent to the site toward North side, there exists a narrow vacant lot facing 14th Street, which also has a subway stop right in the front. A discovery research reveals a plan to be developed a multistory commercial building. In order to respond to this condition, the program not only focuses on designing a museum but also concepts to be creating a continuous design to allow free public flow to benefit the urban life.
Soho, NY Spring 2014
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Parti
Ventilation
Vertical Circulation
Administration
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Basement
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Floor One
Floor Two
Floor Three
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Future program The concept for the connection to the future program will be developed on the vacant lot adjacent on the north side of the museum and the underground programed pedestrian path to the subway stop on 13th Street. This connection is seen to have the possibility to become an underground market place, creating more possibilities to attract visitors, or house art events bringing young talented artists together to express their talent.
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Museum
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Interior Ramp
Sunken Courtyard
Rooftop Outdoor
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MANHATTAN PUBLIC LIBRARY
The site is located on the rural area not far away from Kansas State University campus, adjacent to a technical school and various apartment complex toward the Northeast side, and sloping down to the parks and forest on the South and West side. The focus of the design aims to respond to the existing context by articulating the form, and exploring materiality to activate the building at different time of the day.
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FORM
CREATING THRESHOLD
ELEVATE THE LIBRARY
NEW ELEMENT
The L mass wraping around the site maintains the urban edge.
Cutout from the mass allows passing pedestrians dwelling into the space.
Two vertical bars houses the main circulation, also function as shear structural element to anchor the floating library level, which also create the overhangs above the primary and secondary entrance.
The previous formation results a public node in the middle that features a strong cohesive quality to enhance public and private relationship.
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PUBLIC 1. Lobby 2. Gathering Space 3. Book Space
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SEMI PUBLIC 1. Computer Room 2. Auditorium 3. Quiet Study 4. Kid’s Space 5. Story Telling Room
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... glazzed translucent material captures the sky and beautiful surounding nature and let the building blend into... 90
... the building glows at nightime, casting shadows of inhabitant’s movements... 91
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Central Book Stacks Open to Sky
Nature Panorama
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FLINT HILLS CRAFT CENTER
The site is located in the rural area from Manhattan, Kansas. The natural condition is covered with tall prairie grass, and Wildcat Creek running around the edge made up a natural phenomena. The concept of the design is to create an inspired environment for artists and students by taking the advantage of the existing beauty.
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Various spectacular attraction spots within the site has a strong influence in forming the building in order to capture the view as well as to blend into the beauty of nature across the sloping prairie. Concept sketch shows the intention to create a cluster form of building features multiple openings to different perspectives of observation the landscape.
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Natural light plays a space definition strategy, provoking the feeling of insideness and outsideness
Light as Direction
Inside - Outside Transition
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Cluster
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Hub
Service
Enclosure
Access
View Branch
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TETONIC VS. PROGRAM
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1. Roof 2. Accessible Roof 3. Gallery at main entrance to showcase the arts and attract visitors 4. Meeting room opens directly to the semi private outdoor space adjacent to it 5. Private residence level is located above administration level to gain privacy with a private direct access from outside. 6. General administration 7. Common place features lobby, library and reading area, etc. 8. Studio spaces are shifted and clustered allows wider angle of views.
TETONIC VS. PROGRAM
Light Elements
Heavy Element
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STAVANGER URBAN INTERVENTION
Through an exploration of coexisting systems and their inherent relationships, permeability, harmony, imagination, diversity, and adaptability are the concepts that PHIDA emerges from. By implementing new design into the complex series of existing systems that define Stavanger, PHIDA principles are used as a mean to appropriate value and rational to the decision made.
Stavanger, Norway Spring 2014
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Transportation
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Cultural Nodes
Regional Immigrant
Caning
Drilling
Major Harbor
Regional Out-Migration
The discovery led to the formation of urban strategies that reenergize the market in the heart of Stavanger, Norway. The current condition of the marketplace allow for many opportunities to create a greater sense of place through the definition of the edges and the linking of last or untapped connections within the surrounding urban context.
Existing Edges
Flows and Nodes
Green Space
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The Edge is the border or surface of a continuity in the urban fabric. It terminates space, providing containment and definition; it’s surface directs views and energy flows and provides enclosure.
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Flow is the movement that occurs throughout the various urban systems. Flows can refer to physical movements in systems, or the perception of movement though the relationships between various systems.
Node is knot of energy. A place or group of places that acts as a point of exchange in flows of the urban floor. The size of the node can be a concentrated point of systems, or a larger district of flow interchanges.
The Urban Floor is an occupied, undulating plane that allow for the navigation through various strata.
In reinforcing the metaphor of the urban fabric, the Stitch serves to fasten or join multiple strata. Manifested architecturally stitches are vertical circulation point.
Intervention comes to introducing three elements: Urban Floor - Campanile - Cultural Armature 115
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THE CAMPANILE The Campanile severs as a point of navigation within the city as well as a “needle� in the methodology of urban acupuncture. The structure links to the urban floor and underground transportation systems below and provides a lookout space from which to view the city. Its twelve story height creates triangulation with the historic watchtower as well as the tower of the Stavanger Cathedral: the structure harvests wind energy through horizontal wind turbines, and can respond to different weather conditions with the sides of the top capable of opening or closing to respond to the sunny or rainy weather conditions. 117
The base of the campanile serves as an informal social area, serving both the employees of nearby office buildings as well as passerby on their way to their shops or subway below. The seating arrangement takes its form from the rigid of the granite paving of the nearby marketplace, and extrudes the planar grid in order to form a store seating structure with a variety of campanile rises through the center of the seating. The large opening signaling the presence of the developed urban floor below. 118
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SKETCHES PAINTINGS
“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.” - Orhan Pamuk
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TRAVEL SKETCHES ITALY STUUDY ABROAD SKETCHES
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“Painting is concerned with all the ten attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.� - Leonardo da Vinci
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PHOTOGRAPHY
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” - Ansel Adams
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“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.� - John Berger
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THANK YOU
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