MEMBER EVENTS

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Exhibiting Through March 21, 2019

     

BedforD Center For The Arts (BCA) PHOTO GROUP SHOW AT The New England School Of Photography (NESOP)

THEME: UNTOLD STORIES

New England School of Photography

274 Moody St

Waltham, MA 02453  (617) 437-1868

Photographs tell a story, whether it is landscape, documentary, portrait, street or abstract. The story can be explicit or an enthralling visual experience that defies easy categorization. Sometimes, the more abstract evokes the viewer to construct their own personal narrative. The theme welcomes your interpretation and expression of an untold story. Our display will include 15 photographs, eight horizontal and seven vertical.

Opening Reception:  Sunday, January 27, 2019 from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.  (Snow date will be Sunday, February 3, 2018 from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.)

Length of Show: Friday, January 18th thru Thursday, March 21st.

BCA Photo Group Show At NESOP18 Library Way, Durham, NH 03824

Exhibit Includes NHSPA Member: Bruce Magnuson

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Exhibiting Through March 29, 2019

      

Lotte Jacobi's America: Images of Her Adopted Land

University of New Hampshire Library
18 Library Way, Durham, NH 03824     (603) 862-1535          www.library.unh.edu/museum

Exhibit located on level one in the Dimond Library

Celebrate the photography of Lotte Jacobi with us, with an exhibit of more than 50 of her images. This special exhibition, entitled Lotte Jacobi’s America: Images of her Adopted Land, is guest curated by New Hampshire Artist Laureate, Gary Samson, Emeritus Professor of Photography at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and longtime friend and protégé of Jacobi.

Drawn from the University’s extensive Jacobi archive, the exhibit features photographs taken by Jacobi after she left Germany and emigrated to America in 1935. Jacobi continued her craft in exile, first in New York, with her portraiture, cityscapes, and abstract photogenics over a period of twenty years. After making portraits of the nation’s creative and intellectual giants including Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Theodore Dreiser, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marc Chagall and J.D. Salinger, she moved to New Hampshire in the mid 50s, where her photographs often captured rural life; nevertheless, she continued to make portraits of creative luminaries such as Robert Frost, Edward Steichen, May Sarton, and Minor White, among others.

Samson recognizes that a retrospective exhibit of Lotte Jacobi’s archive at UNH is long overdue. As guest curator, he aims to make this one different by focusing on her post emigration photography, adding that “it will be great to share her particular vision of America through rarely seen images of the leading intellectuals, writers, artists, and performers of the 20th century that she engaged and photographed in her own distinctive approach to photographic portraiture.”

Exhibit Curated By NHSPA Member: Gary Samson, Emeritus Professor of Photography at the New Hampshire                                                                 Institute of Art

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Exhibiting Through April 29th, 2019           

  

“BREAKING AND MAKING THE SARAH LONG BRIDGE” Multiple Artists

Kittery Community Center

The Morgan Gallery

120 Rogers Road
Kittery, ME 03904     207-439-3800      www.kitterycommunitycenter.org

Hours: M-F 6am-9pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 12pm-4pm

Join us at the Morgan Gallery and STAR Theatre at the Kittery Community Center on January 9th, 2019 for an evening event celebrating the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge.

On January 9, 2019 At 5:30PM in the Morgan Gallery, enjoy an artist opening reception with drinks and refreshments showcasing painting and photography work by 17 local artists, including show curator, Bill Moore. You will see a wide range of impressions of the Sarah Long Bridge.

Following the reception, beginning at 7:00PM, there will be a lecture in the STAR Theatre on the topic by two of the show’s featured artists, Richard Hopley and Eric Reuter. Hopley and Reuter will offer unique views on the demolition of the old Sarah and pay homage to the new bridge. 

Due to limited seating in the STAR Theatre, please pre-register for the lecture by calling 207-439-3800.

The Sarah Mildred Long Bridge spans across the Piscataqua River joining Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Kittery, Maine. 

Exhibit Includes NHSPA Members:  Bill Moore, Bob Taylor

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Exhibiting Indefinitely

      

                 ©Susan Hershey                                ©Larry Elbroch                                           @KenGoldman     

'REFLECTIONS OF PORTSMOUTH EXHIBIT'

The New Foundry Place Garage

100 Foundry Place

Portsmouth, NH 03801

A temporary exhibit that lines windows of the garage and showcases both the beautiful imagery and creative talent that exists in Portsmouth. 

Exhibit Includes NHSPA Members: Susan Hershey, Lawrence Elbroch, Ken Goldman, David J. Murray

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Exhibit - Permanent Installment In Portsmouth, NH

    

'New Permanent Group Show Features Beautiful Large Prints of Work by Harry Licthman, Jerry Monkman, and David J. Murray'

155 Borthwick Ave

Portsmouth NH 03801

Contact David J. Murray www.ClearEyePhoto.com

The first floor public hallways of 155 Borthwick Ave in Portsmouth NH are now adorned with ~35 large art prints by area photographers Harry Licthman, Jerry Monkman, and David J. Murray. Building owner Michael Kane says his goal in displaying the work is to provide the many visitors who come to the medically-oriented building for dialysis, chemo infusions, and other medical treatments with a bit of beauty and distraction. The show was curated for Kane by Mary Jo Brown of Brown & Company in Portsmouth, NH, and a large information sign provides artist head shots, bios, and contact info.

NHIA members may find this installation interesting not only for the work itself, and for the evidence it provides that local companies are willing to devote significant dollars to purchasing and promoting the work of local artists, but also for the quality and medium of the prints themselves. Instead of having each photographer produce their own framed prints for hanging, The Kane Company licensed rights from each photographer to have all of the prints produced by a New York firm that specializes in large format high quality acrylic prints for corporate installations, and paid directly for all of the prints to be produced. The results are quite striking. Most of the pieces are at least 60" wide, and the largest is an 88" panorama. The acrylic treatment and large size combine to make these images really pop, while the uniform treatment lends a nice coherence to the show as a whole. You might enjoy checking them out, to see if this type of treatment would be of interest for your own work too.

Exhibit Includes NHSPA Member:  David J. Murray 

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Greece Photography Workshop September 2019

 

A PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP with Gary Samson, David Speltz and Dimitris Varsalis

The New England Center for Photography at Camera Commons

652 Central Ave

Dover, NH 03820

(603) 842-4713

For the full package and more information please email greece2019@cameracommons.com

The New England Center for Photography at Camera Commons (The Center) specializes in photography workshops serving North America with clientele from across the U.S. Its workshops include travel photography, digital photography, film based large format view camera photography and 19th century handmade photographic processes. The Center, located in southern New Hampshire, has two beautifully lit and recently renovated galleries, and we expect that after this trip we will be exhibiting a selection of your work from Greece as part of an exhibit featuring travel photography.

This trip is meant not only for beginning and advanced amateurs, but also anyone interested in learning the basics of photography in absolutely magnificent, easy-to-photograph locations illuminated by the unique light of Greece. Photographers explore their subject in some depth providing a chance to create an intimate visual diary of their experiences in this extraordinary country. And for those not interested in photography but are accompanying a photographer, there is no shortage of opportunities to see and enjoy parts of Greece and Greek culture you might otherwise miss.

This trip is co-sponsored by the New England Center for Photography at Camera Commons and Hellenic Adventures http://www.hellenicadventures.com, a travel company specializing in customized travel services in Greece for travelers accustomed to not just seeing a land, but truly experiencing it. The company president and designer of this trip has been a Condé Nast Traveler top travel specialist for Greece since 2004. Hellenic Adventures is responsible for all trip arrangements and services and will manage trip registration.

We are confident that, with the photography team of Gary Samson and David Speltz's extensive photographic travel experience and our expert Greek guide Dimitris Varsalis, you will experience a superb photographic and international educational opportunity. We hope you will join us.

Workshop Presented by NHSPA Members:  David Speltz, Gary Samson

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Member Feature Video

'The CREATORS of Somecity Interviews NHSPA members Gary Sampson and Michael Stearling Introducing The NH Now  StatewideProject'

SomeCityNow is a media creators center located in downtown Somersworth, New Hampshire. 
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Introducing the NH-Now Statewide Project

Photographers Gary Samson and Michael Sterling talk with The Creators host, Tom Jackson about NH NOW, a photo project documenting NH's photographic legacy through images that define the state in powerful moments around the Granite State today. Micheal Sterling is the president of the NH Society of Photographic Artists – NHSPA.org – which hosts NH Now. Both men talk about their own inspiration to create with cameras, from film to digital, iphone to DSLR to raw. Gary Samson also speaks about curating the photographs of the Farm Security Administration – FSA – that captured rural life in NH from 1937 - 1942.

NHSPA Members:  Gary Samson and Michael Stearling

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Member Feature Article

“Letters from Iwo Jima” from the series “Just As He Left It” by Tony Attardo

NHSPA member Tony Attardo 

has a terrific spotlight article as a featured member of the Photographic Resource Center. Follow this link to the feature article and enjoy: https://prcboston.org/tony-attardo/

Feature Article Includes NHSPA Members:  Tony Attardo

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NEW ENGLAND AREA PHOTOGRAPHY EVENTS

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Exhibit Space Available at The Seacoast Repertory Theater, Portsmouth, NH 2019 Season

ARTISTS WANTED to display their work in the lobby of the Seacoast Rep during

the 2019 Season. If interested contact Mark Michael Adams directly on his facebook page at the following link.

125 Bow Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801    (603) 433-4472     www.seacoastrep.org

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Exhibiting Through Feb 24, 2019

“Ansel Adams in Our Time” 

Museum Of Fine Arts (MFA)

Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31)

Avenue of the Arts

465 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115     617-267-9300    www.mfa.org Ansel Adams In Out Time

“Ansel Adams in Our Time” traces the iconic visual legacy of Ansel Adams (1902–1984), presenting some of his most celebrated prints, from a symphonic view of snow-dusted peaks in The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (1942) to an aerial shot of a knotted roadway in Freeway Interchange, Los Angeles (1967). The exhibition looks both backward and forward in time: his black-and-white photographs are displayed alongside prints by several of the 19th-century government survey photographers who greatly influenced Adams, as well as work by contemporary artists whose modern-day concerns centered on the environment, land rights, and the use and misuse of natural resources point directly to Adams’ legacy.

While crafting his own modernist vision, Adams was inspired by precursors in government survey and expedition photography such as Carleton Watkins (1829–1916), Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), Timothy O’Sullivan (1840-1882) and Frank Jay Haynes (1853–1921), who worked with large bulky cameras and glass-plate negatives and set off into the wilderness carrying their equipment on mules. In some cases, Adams replicated their exact views of the Yosemite Valley, Canyon de Chelly, and Yellowstone, producing images that would become emblematic of the country’s national parks. In Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park (about 1937), the granite crags of the Yosemite Valley are wreathed in clouds after a sudden storm. Executed with unrivaled sensitivity and rigorous exactitude, the artist’s photographs popularized the notion that the American West was a pristine, and largely uninhabited, wilderness.

“Ansel Adams in Our Time” also brings Adams forward in time, juxtaposing his work with that of contemporary artists such as Mark Klett (born 1962), Trevor Paglen (born 1974), Catherine Opie (born 1961), Abelardo Morell (born 1948), Victoria Sambunaris (born 1964), and Binh Danh (born 1977). The more than 20 present-day photographers in the exhibition have not only been drawn to some of the same locations, but also engaged with many of the themes central to Adams’ legacy: desert and wilderness spaces, Native Americans and the Southwest, and broader issues affecting the environment: logging, mining, drought and fire, booms and busts, development, and urban sprawl.

Adams’ stunning images were last on view at the MFA in a major exhibition in 2005; this new, even larger presentation places his work in the context of the 21st century, with all that implies about the role photography has played—and continues to play—in our changing perceptions of the land. The Adams photographs in the exhibition are drawn from the Lane Collection, one of the largest and most significant gifts in MFA history.

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Exhibiting Through March 4, 2019

                     

CATE WNEK, 'RAISING GOOSEBUMPS'                SUSAN DE WITT                                        CATIE SOLDAN

                                                          

     JOSHUA SARIÑANA, 'IMAGES OF STRUCTURE'                                       JP TERLIZZI

“FIRST LOOK,” Panopticon's Second Annual Juried Portfolio Showcase'  

Panopticon Gallery

502c Commonwealth Avenue (Inside Hotel Commonwealth)

Boston, MA 02215     (617) 396-7803   www.panopticongallery.com First Look 2019

Every photograph tells a story. When part of a body of work, the photograph takes on new meaning, becoming part of a bigger and more complete narrative. A portfolio allows the photographer to explore the complexities of their subject, and provide context that gives it richness and meaning that is more than the sum of its parts. Panopticon Gallery is pleased to present “First Look,” our second annual juried portfolio showcase.

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Exhibiting Through Feb, 28, 2019

Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva

Exhibiting through May 12, 2019

'A Way Of Life, A Way Of Seeing'

MFA Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Henry and Lois Foster Gallery (Gallery 158)

Avenue of the Arts

465 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02110    (617) 267-9300  www.mfa.org Photographs of Graciela Iturbide 

The photographs of Graciela Iturbide not only bear witness to Mexican society but express an intense personal and poetic lyricism about her native country. One of the most influential photographers active in Latin America today, Iturbide captures everyday life and its cultures, rituals, and religions, while also raising questions about paradoxes and social injustice in Mexican society. Her photographs tell a visual story of Mexico since the late 1970s—a country in constant transition, defined by the coexistence of the historical and modern as a result of the culture’s rich amalgamation of cultures. For Iturbide, photography is a way of life and a way of seeing and understanding Mexico and its beauty, challenges, and contradictions.

This is the first major East Coast presentation of Iturbide’s work, featuring approximately 125 photographs that span her five-decade-long career. Organized into nine sections, the exhibition opens with early photographs, followed by three series focused on three of Mexico’s many indigenous cultures: Juchitáncaptures the essential role of women in Zapotec culture; Los que viven en la arena (Those Who Live in the Sand) concentrates on the Seri people living in the Sonoran Desert; and La Mixteca documents elaborate goat-slaughtering rituals in Oaxaca, serving as critical commentary on the exploitation of workers. Thematic groupings highlight Iturbide’s explorations of various aspects of Mexican culture, including fiestas, death and mortality, and birds and their symbolism. Her more recent work is presented in two series related to Mexico’s cultural and artistic heritage, featuring plants—mainly cacti—in “intensive care” at the Oaxaca Ethnobotanical Gardens, as well as El baño de Frida (Frida’s Bathroom), depicting personal belongings in Frida Kahlo’s bathroom at the Casa Azul that had been locked away for 50 years after the artist’s death.

Iturbide’s powerful and provocative photographs are anti-picturesque, anti-folkloric. Her work embodies her empathetic approach to photography and her deep connection with her subjects, asking questions through its capacity for imaginary associations. Drawn primarily from Iturbide’s own collection, “Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico” also includes the Museum’s recent acquisition of 37 works by the artist, as well as loans from museums and private collections throughout the US and Mexico. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue produced by MFA Publications.

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Exhibiting through June 16, 2019

Richard Avedon: Portraits, 1952-1970 at the Portland Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Fine Art

7 Congress Square

Portland, Maine 04101      (207) 775-6148     www.portlandmuseum.org

This exhibition showcases 12 photographic portraits and three triptychs of celebrated individuals by the iconic American photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004). Primarily a fashion photographer whose images played an influential role in defining America’s image of style, beauty, and culture, these portraits suggest his disillusionment with commercial work and his quest to portray the likeness of the sitter.

Published on the occasion the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s seminal 1970 exhibition on the artist, the Minneapolis Portfolio highlights a stylistic shift in Avedon’s practice. Here, the photographer employed an 8 x 10 view camera and shot his subjects on a flat, white background instead of his traditional grey. Stepping out from behind the camera, Avedon also began interacting with his sitters. In the Minneapolis Portfolio, Avedon’s intimate portraits feature actor Humphrey Bogart and actress Marilyn Monroe, comedians Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton, poets Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore, as well as President Dwight David Eisenhower and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among others. Recognizable yet foreign, the close-up portraits obscure identities and public personas, casting the subjects anew.

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Exhibiting through June 23, 2019 

'Postwar Visions European Photography, 1945–60'

MFA Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Herb Ritts Gallery (Gallery 169)

Avenue of the Arts

465 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02110    (617) 267-9300  www.mfa.org/exhibitions/postwar-visions

Reviving Bauhaus abstraction after World War II

“Postwar Visions” looks at the work of European photographers who, after hostilities ended in 1945, chose to use their cameras to express their creative impulses. Some of these artists returned to Bauhaus ideas about art making that had been interrupted by the political repression of the 1930s and six long years of war. An influential center of this new work was located in Germany, where Otto Steinert, a medical doctor turned photographer, organized a group of artists who used the camera to explore the inner self through abstract imagery. They found intriguing patterns in nature and in the built environment, and they also took inspiration from mundane visual details of daily life. In the 1950s, Steinert organized a number of exhibitions titled Subjektive Fotografie (Subjective Photography), bringing international attention to their approach and inspiring photographers around the world to explore elements of abstraction in their work.

“Postwar Visions: European Photography, 1945–60” investigates this rise of mid-century creativity in an assemblage of approximately 35 works. Steinert’s Luminogramm (1952), made by the light of a flashlight, captures the playful spirit of the movement. Other images in the exhibition are meditative observations of daily life, such as rain droplets streaming down a windowpane, a bicyclist gliding down a winding road, the gentle curves of a nude. The exhibition is organized into four sections—pure abstractions, still life, daily life, and industrial subjects—and also features the work of Peter Keetman, Toni Schneiders, Mario Giacomelli, Nino Migliore, Sabine Weiss, Jean-Pierre Sudre, and more. The photographs are drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection, with a number of significant loans from private collections. “Postwar Visions” is a companion exhibition to “Radical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919–33,” which explores abstraction in European graphic art during the interwar period.

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Exhibit Opening Fall 2019

'The Polaroid Project'

MIT Museum

Building N51

265 Massachusetts  Avenue

Cambridge - 02139 MA     (617) 253-5927     www.mitmuseum.mit.edu The Polaroid Project

In its heyday, Polaroid and its products were loved by millions of amateurs and embraced by countless professionals. ThePolaroidProject tells the fascinating and instructive story of the Polaroid company, and presents all aspects of Polaroid photography, including the technology that made it possible. Fittingly, after traveling around the world, this critically acclaimed exhibition will make its final stop at the MIT Museum, approximately a block from where instant film was first invented.

This unique exhibition explores various dimensions of the art-technology relationship through the exhibition of both art and artifacts. There will be over two hundred photographs by 120 artists, including Ansel Adams, Chuck Close, Barbara Crane, Harold Edgerton, Walker Evans, Hans Hansen, David Hockney, Dennis Hopper, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and William Wegman.  The exhibition also showcases more than 75 artifacts--including cameras, prototypes, experimental films and other technical materials--from the MIT Museum’s own collection of historical Polaroid artifacts.

Accompanying the exhibition is ThePolaroidProject: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, a richly designed catalog with over 300 illustrations.

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NEW ENGLAND AREA WORKSHOPS, CLASSES, SPEAKER EVENTS

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Photography Workshop      March 2, 2019      9:00am - 4:30 pm

'Weddings & Events from Beginning to End' Presented by Jim Carlen M.Photog, CPP, A.C.Ph www.carlenimages.com   

Open To Public    $60.00 for first Class, $40 for additional class in Photo Festival Edu Series     REGISTER HERE www.NHPPA.com Photo Festival

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Photography Workshop      March 16, 2019      9:00am - 4:30 pm

'MYSTERIES & MYTHS OF MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA'   Presented by Tanya Lee Hervey  www.tanyaleeherveyphotography.com 

Open To Public    $60.00 for first Class, $40 for additional class in Photo Festival Edu Series     REGISTER HERE www.NHPPA.com Photo Festival

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Photography Workshop      March 23, 2019      9:00am - 4:30 pm

'Commercial Photography'  Presented by Tim Cameron, M.Photog.CR., CPP, D.C.Ph.S   www.achberstudio.com 

Open To Public    $60.00 for first Class, $40 for additional class in Photo Festival Edu Series     REGISTER HERE   www.NHPPA.com Photo Festival

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Registration Open - Photography Workshop/Classes Run April 5-April 8, 2019

NEIPP 2019 New England Institute of Photography

@ Hunts Photo and Video

100 Main Street

Melrose, Mass 02176

Registration for The New England Institute of Professional Photography is now open, Enter Here:  NEIPP2019 Registration

The new structure allows you to custom design your own engaging educational experience!

The  lineup of instructors for NEIPP 2019  in Melrose, Mass is as follows. The new structure allows you to custom design your own engaging educational experience!

Friday April 5, 2019

Chris Pinchbeck - Environmental Portaits - PPA Merit Class (9:00am - 5pm)

Raymond Peeples - The Hitchhikers Guide to SEO (9:00am - 5pm)

Saturday April 6, 2019

Lisa Cuchara - Creative Light Painting - PPA Merit Class (9:00am - 5pm)

Arthur Levi Rainville - The Art of the Portait (9:00am - 5pm)

Sunday April 7, 2019

Suzanne Merrill - Newborn Photography - PPA Merit Class (10am - 5:30pm)

Stephen Sedman - Evolving Your Wedding Game (10am - 5:30pm)

Monday April 8, 2019

Richard Hydren - Real Estate Photography - PPA Merit Class (9:00am - 5pm)

Bailey Fox - Maternity Photography (9:00am - 5pm)

Class enrollment to open soon, and will be available to be purchased separately, or choose four days of education for one price! Thank you to all of our members, colleagues, and students for all the love and support you have shown PPANE and NEIPP during this time!

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