BY SUSAN B. APEL 6 PHOTOGRAPHY BY L ARS BL ACKMORE
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AVA GALLERY’S NEW DIRECTOR
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ars Hasselblad Torres has led a life that by his own description is the definition of peripatetic. Born in Palo Alto, California, Lars and his family soon moved to Seattle, Washington, on to Malaysia, then back to Seattle. He spent part of his teenage years in Senegal, where the hustle of life in Dakar defined his early interests in artmaking and surfboard design. He then passed through a few west and east coast institutions of higher education, including the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC, where he studied photography. He eventually landed in Brattleboro, Vermont, at the School for International Training, where he wrote his senior research thesis on the informal economy involving the repurposing of municipal waste at the dump in Dakar.
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