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That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called Your photographs: Better.

Sam Abell

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Sam Abell
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: February 19
Photographer
Sylvania
Ohio
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Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
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[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
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It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.
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