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How Does a Subject’s Backstory Change a Photographer’s Work?

By Matthew Reitman
May 3, 2016 5:00 am EDT

Canon experimented with six Australian photographers, giving them a different background story for the same subject of a portrait. The photographs were defined by the photographers’ false impressions of the subject. See the results in the video below.

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