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I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

Jock Sturges

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Jock Sturges
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Photographer
New York City
New York
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