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While sorting through the negatives, Sauvin noticed something striking. Images of a certain category and series were so similar, they seemed to be the work of a single photographer, but weren’t. It enforced the fact that some situations and places are so rigidly set in our memories, that people percieve them similarly.
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clock. He began to doubt the future of the project. Finally, after spending months going through the negatives, he struck gold amongst the silver. His mind began to recognise several recurring themes and he started putting similar pictures together. There were people posing with appliances, clichĂŠ pictures at popular destinations and Better PhotograPhy
many such exhilarating patterns. Finally, the loose ends seemed to tie themselves up. Over time, he realised the importance of his work. He was creating a stunning repository of Chinese history that was not otherwise available to an outsider. While every photograph in the collection has its individual story to tell , Sauvin chose aU g U St 2 0 1 6