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Carlos Galvan
My photography life started in 1958. Okay that was before I was born. I’ll explain. My father served in the Army before he and my mother were married. Being stationed in the Far East, he took the opportunity to purchase a Petri 35mm camera and flash. (The kind with the flash bulbs that had to be replaced after a single exposure.) The fateful day came some 20 years later in 1978 while I was a sophomore in high school. He gave me that very camera to use and experiment. I knew absolutely nothing about cameras or photography at the time. In order to learn about the funny sequence of numbers and letters on the various dials, I went to the library to check out a couple of books on photography. The best book that I found was written by more…