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Book Review: The Presence of Absence by Inbal Abergil

Before I begin, I’d like to take a moment to express my gratitude to publishers in general and to Kehrer Verlag in particular, for continuing to give us the opportunity to explore the work of so many great photographers—whether we are rediscovering artists we thought we already knew or discovering new ones.Thank you for giving photography lovers the opportunity to discover new work and new stories, to see the world from different perspectives, and to experience emotions through images printe

BigPicture 2026: Nature's Best in Pictures

Some photographs make you stop scrolling. Others make you question whether you are looking at a photograph at all.The 2026 BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition, presented by the California Academy of Sciences, has once again turned extraordinary moments in the natural world into powerful visual stories. For its 13th annual competition, photographers from 64 countries submitted more than 7,400 images, capturing everything from elusive wildlife and underwater life to landscapes, insec

Book Review: Africatown by Ave Pildas

I first discovered Ave Pildas's work through his submissions to AAP Magazine, where he was selected as a winner. Since then, I have continued to discover his incredible work through his other submissions, our interview about his book Star Struck, and Bijou Thoughts, a project we also presented on All About Photo. Over the years, I have also had the pleasure of getting to know Ave through our exchanges, and his warmth, kindness, humor, and liveliness have always come through. Looking at Africatow

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen: Step by Step

Step by Step (1982–1989) by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a tender, revealing portrait of girls, mothers, and a close-knit dancing community in North Shields, in the North East of England. Made over six years, the project follows a generation of young dancers as they grow from childhood into adolescence and adulthood, capturing not only the discipline and excitement of dance, but also the hopes, doubts, friendships, family ties, and social realities that shape their lives beyo

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2026 Global Photography Awards

Deadline: September 10, 2026
Global Photography Awards

The Global Photography Awards (GPA) is a truly international photography competition celebrating the stories, efforts, and unique perspectives behind each and every click of the shutter. As a platform that recognizes exceptional talent in photography, the award presents the identity of each photographer, showcasing the beauty and elegance of their creations worldwide. About Fostering the growth of visual arts across the globe, the Global Photography Awards welcomes inspiring photographers from e

Black Box Gallery: Black and White 2026

Deadline: September 10, 2026
Black Box Gallery

Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a Black and White juried group photo show. There is often a classic, nostalgic and dynamic translation to black and white photography. Black and White has an important tradition of luminous, well-crafted and thoughtfully composed imagery. Contemporary photographers are involved in this dialog of history and tradition, but with their own modern voice, visions and aesthetics of imagery. Black Box will be looking for a diversity of photographic works and ide

50 Billboards 50 States

Deadline: September 10, 2026
VSCO

VSCO is selecting fifty photographers, one from every state, to have their work featured on billboards across the country, licensed, and compensated by VSCO. Every day, photographers are building careers in every corner of the country. They're documenting communities, preserving our most significant moments, growing their portfolios, bringing products to life, and shaping the world we see. The Fifty is a nationwide recognition of photographers in the United States, showing that you can make it r

Megalopolitan Art Gallery: Stil Life 2026

Deadline: September 10, 2026
Megalopolitan Art Gallery

Megalopolitan Art Gallery invites artists worldwide to submit their work for the upcoming online art exhibition Still Life. We encourage artists to discover their own subjects and present them through an individual artistic perspective. Still Life can be found in the simplest moments like a collection of flowers on a table, fruit arranged in a bowl, treasured belongings, or an unexpected combination of everyday objects. Submissions may include natural elements such as flowers, fruit, leaves, pla

Square

Deadline: September 10, 2026
Decode Gallery

This exhibition challenges photographers to compose within the confines of the perfect square. From analog Hasselblads to digital Instagram feeds, the square remains one of the most iconic and enduring formats in photography—where symmetry, balance, focus, and narrative are transformed within its equal-sided boundaries. We welcome submissions from all photographic genres—including portraiture, landscape, documentary, architecture, and conceptual work. Show us how you use the unique creative cons

The Halide Project: Living Image 2026/2027

Deadline: September 11, 2026
The Halide Project

Living Image showcases contemporary artists working in traditional and historic photographic techniques. Selected works will be included in an exhibition held at The Halide Project gallery in Philadelphia and published in a printed catalog to accompany the exhibition. All selected artists will receive a copy of the catalog, with additional copies available for a donation. One Grand Prize winner will be selected to receive a $250 cash prize along with the opportunity to show a body of work in The

F-Stop Magazine - Food 2026

Deadline: September 11, 2026
F-Stop Magazine

Issue #139 will focus on photography of and about food. Submit up to 12 photographs. Only one submission per person for an issue. The featured artist is chosen from the work that is submitted to the issue. Submit up to 12 photographs

Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion

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Deadline: September 11, 2026
Vogue Magazine

This year’s PhotoVogue Global Open Call embraces creativity as rebellion, inviting photographers and video makers to use image-making to challenge indifference, disrupt conventions, and expand visual storytelling. What We welcome photography, video, and multimedia projects across all genres, including fashion, documentary, portraiture, fine art, and experimental practices. We are looking for work that expresses a clear point of view, whether through the ideas it explores, the emotions it evo

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Ruth Thorne-Thomsen

Jul 31, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
Santa Fe, NM, United States

Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, on view from July 31 to September 11, 2026 at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, brings together vintage gelatin silver prints that reflect an unusual and highly constructed photographic practice. The exhibition spans several key series and offers a clear look at an artist who has long worked at the meeting point of photography, symbolism and psychological observation. Thorne-Thomsen is known for staging scenes in landscapes, then photographing them again to create images that feel

SUPERFLEX: Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons

Jun 12, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

MAK Center for Art and Architecture
West Hollywood, CA, United States

SUPERFLEX: Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons brings three decades of work by the Danish collective to the MAK Center at the Schindler House from June 12 to September 13, 2026. The exhibition uses four distinct works to explore how familiar objects and images can be rearranged into something slightly off balance, and how that shift changes the way they read. The setting fits the project well. Designed in 1922 by R.M. Schindler as a multi-family dwelling, the Schindler House was built around

Constance Thalken: Heart of a Bird

Aug 01, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Whitespace
Atlanta, GA, United States

Heart of a Bird at Whitespace Gallery brings Constance Thalken’s long attention to the natural world into sharp focus through photographs made over five years in the Southeast, from Florida to Texas. On view from August 1 to September 12, the exhibition draws from the forthcoming monograph of the same name and centers on coastal marshlands, small communities, and the uneasy border where human life meets the forces of weather, water, and animal survival. Thalken’s work does not romanticize the

Blessings from the Three: Tortilleras, Jotos, and Potaxies

Aug 01, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

The Luckman Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Blessings from the Three: Tortilleras, Jotos, and Potaxies at The Luckman Gallery turns Los Angeles into a charged social landscape, where cyanotype, mirror surfaces and queer Brown memory meet. On view from August 1 to September 12, 2026, the exhibition by Amina Cruz, curated by Steve Galindo and Aaron Gomez, moves through redlined neighborhoods as if they were living archives rather than fixed geography. Cruz’s photographs draw on the language of spiritual inheritance and urban friction. Th

Bev Grant: Photographs from Cuba, 1969

Jul 24, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

OSMOS
New York, NY, United States

Bev Grant: Photographs from Cuba, 1969 at OSMOS revisits a brief but telling chapter in the photographer’s long career as an activist and documentarian. On view from July 24 to September 12, 2026, the exhibition presents images made during Grant’s trip to Cuba for the tenth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, when she traveled with the radical collective Newsreel as part of a broader exchange of alternative media personnel from the United States. The photographs record a country in motion an

Expand and Contract: Notes about American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century

Jul 25, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

LACP - Los Angeles Center of Photography
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Expand and Contract: Notes about American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century takes a restrained but pointed look at how documentary photography has evolved across the first quarter of the century. On view from July 25 to September 12, 2026, the third edition of the exhibition at the Los Angeles Center of Photography brings together work that reflects on the country’s shifting image of itself, from 9/11 and the rise of digital media to protest, displacement, wildfire and incarceration.

Sabiha Çimen and Mary Ellen Mark: The Girls

Apr 02, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Howard Greenberg Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Sabiha Çimen and Mary Ellen Mark: The Girls brings together two distinct yet deeply resonant photographic voices at Howard Greenberg Gallery from April 2 to May 9, 2026. Though separated by generation and geography, both artists turn their attention toward the intimate, often overlooked terrain of girlhood. The exhibition unfolds as a quiet dialogue across time, where images echo one another in their sensitivity to moments of play, introspection, and transformation. Mary Ellen Mark’s work, sp

A Terrible Beauty: Photographers Amid Chaos

Jul 11, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, FL, United States

A Terrible Beauty: Photographers Amid Chaos takes its cue from W. B. Yeats and applies that line to photography’s uneasy role in moments of crisis. On view from July 11 to September 12, 2026, the exhibition brings together images made in the wake of upheaval, from the American Civil War to the attacks of September 11, placing documentary urgency alongside artistic intent. The title line from Easter, 1916 is apt. Yeats wrote about violence, sacrifice and historical rupture with a measured clar

Notes from the Margins: Allen Ginsberg and Vivian Maier

Jun 04, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Howard Greenberg Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Notes from the Margins: Allen Ginsberg and Vivian Maier brings together two artists born in 1926 whose work was long shaped outside the center of the art world. On view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from June 4 through September 12, 2026, the exhibition marks the centennials of Ginsberg and Maier with about 80 modern and vintage prints, along with Maier’s experimental film footage and a film of Ginsberg reading “Howl.” Vivian Maier spent most of her life working as a nanny in Chicago while phot

Feeding a Swan to a Wolf

Jun 26, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Filter Photo
Chicago, IL, United States

Feeding a Swan to a Wolf presents a collaboration shaped by repetition, tension and a shared interest in how desire takes form. On view from June 26 to September 12, 2026 at Filter Photo, the project by RAGER — Marzena Abrahamik and Rebecca Kressley — brings together photography, video and sound in a body of work that has been unfolding since 2024. Rather than treating collaboration as a fixed division of labor, RAGER moves between joint and individual production. That rhythm gives the projec

1911 Sunset Boulevard

Aug 08, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Gallery Luisotti
Los Angeles, CA, United States

1911 Sunset Boulevard at Gallery Luisotti looks at Taix French Restaurant through the period between its final months and the empty site left after demolition. On view from August 8 through September 12, 2026, the exhibition brings together work by Marcel Alcalá, Maxfield Hegedus, Kittpong, Arturo Soto, Abdi Taslimi and Evan Whale, alongside Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip. For more than six decades, Taix occupied an unusual position on Sunset Boulevard. Its dining rooms, banqu

Second Nature at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

May 21, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Kansas City, MO, United States

Second Nature is the first major exhibition to explore the concept of the Anthropocene through contemporary photography, bringing together the work of forty-five artists from around the world. Through diverse artistic approaches—ranging from large-scale aerial imagery to digital collage and conceptual installations—the exhibition confronts the profound transformations shaping our planet. Each artist offers a distinct visual interpretation of this proposed geological epoch, illustrating both its

Todd Hido, Many Small Decisions

Aug 01, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026

CFPA - Center for Photographic Art
Carmel, CA, United States

Todd Hido, Many Small Decisions marks the 25th anniversary of House Hunting, the book that helped define Todd Hido’s reputation for photographing the quiet edges of suburban and rural America. On view from August 1 to September 13, 2026 at the Center for Photographic Art, the exhibition brings together night-time house images, recent collages and other works that extend the same uneasy, cinematic atmosphere that has long shaped his practice. Born in 1968 in Kent, Ohio, Todd Hido has built his

Lynn Goldsmith: Shared Light

Jun 20, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota, FL, United States

Lynn Goldsmith: Shared Light brings photography, flowers and portraiture together at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota from June 20 to September 13, 2026. The exhibition spans the Downtown Sarasota campus and the Richard and Ellen Sandor Museum of Botany & the Arts, pairing Goldsmith’s flower images with portraits of Patti Smith, Selby Gardens’ artist in residence. Goldsmith has spent more than 50 years working across celebrity portraiture, music photography and fine art. Her images h

Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes Spirit

Jun 24, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026

ICP - International Center of Photography
New York, NY, United States

Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes Spirit brings an Amazonian community into view through a project shaped by time, trust and close observation. On view from June 24 to September 13, 2026 at ICP’s Incubator Space, the exhibition follows Hernández Briceño’s documentation of the Huöttöja people in Venezuela’s Amazon basin, where mining pressure and ancestral knowledge sit in uneasy balance. The photographs begin from a clear ethical concern: how to portray a community without repeating the

Lake Verea: Dark Rooms and Other Games

May 09, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026

Palm Springs Art Museum
Palm Springs, CA, United States

Since 2005, Mexico City–based artists Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea have worked together under the name Lake Verea, blending their personal identities and creative visions to explore the boundaries between architecture, emotion, and image-making. Their collaboration weaves intimacy, queerness, and experimentation into photography, transforming built spaces into living presences that hold memory, tenderness, and time. In their series Dark Rooms and Other Games, Lake Verea turn their a

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Inbal Abergil: The Presence of Absence

Inbal Abergil | Nov 2025 – Kehrer Verlag

Inbal Abergil: The Presence of Absence is a deeply considered photographic work shaped over more than a decade, tracing the quiet, enduring aftermath of war. At its heart lies a moment that cleaves life in two: the unexpected ring of a doorbell, the arrival of news no family is prepared to receive.

Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs

Karin L. Stanford with Mark Speltz | Jun 2026 – Getty Publications

Edward Burtynsky: Anthropocene

Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal & Nicholas de Pencier | Jun 2026 – Steidl

Jean-Pierre Laffont: Rebels with a Cause

Jean-Pierre Laffont | Sep 2026 – Damiani

Sara Bennett: Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences

Sara Bennett | Sep 2026 – Kehrer Verlag

Newsha Tavakolian: And They Laughed at Me

Newsha Tavakolian | Sep 2026 – Kehrer Verlag

Jo Ann Chaus: Unspoken

Jo Ann Chaus | Sep 2026 – Kehrer Verlag

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Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror

By Jack Shainman Gallery

Events

Jack Shainman Gallery presents Voices in the Mirror, a significant exhibition that returns to the photographs of Gordon Parks through the memories and reflections of the people and families who stood in front of his camera. Bringing together photographs, firsthand accounts, and personal recollections, the exhibition offers a new way of looking at some of Parks’ most enduring images—this time through the voices of those who lived them. Marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundatio

Between States by Gaja Klapucka

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Photographers

These photographs were made during solitary winter walks between late December 25’ and early January 26’ . After a long period away from making images, walking became a way to re-enter attention - to notice light, surface, reflection, and the quiet traces of people moving through shared spaces. The work follows a gradual shift from presence to absence, and back again, allowing meaning to emerge through restraint rather than resolution. Structured as a visual play in three acts - Leavin

Where the Air is Still and the Dust is Thick by Sublunar

By Sublunar

Photographers

Scattered among the built environments of every civilization, forgotten doorways keep the ghosts of its past contained in silent obscurity. History itself lingers on through windows which have been caked with dirt and the passing of time. What secrets lie hidden in the darkness waiting to be told? What does the present have to learn from the past? And what kind of adventures are in store for those willing to experience them? In this long-term photographic project, I embark upon a multi-facete

Book Review: Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Publications

Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs invites readers to reconsider the familiar map of American civil rights history. When we think about the movement, we often picture Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery, and the iconic photographs associated with those places. Los Angeles rarely occupies the same space in our visual memory. Yet this richly researched volume makes clear that the struggle for equality was also taking place on the West Coast, through demonstrations,

Book Review: Looking Inside by Sara Bennett

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Publications

Sara Bennett’s Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences is a quietly powerful photobook that examines incarceration without reducing the women it portrays to their crimes. Over more than a decade, Bennett—a former public defender turned photographer—returned to prisons across New York State to photograph women serving life sentences for homicide, creating a body of work marked by patience, consistency, and trust. Published by Kehrer Verlag, the book brings together portraits, handwritten l

Dark Tales: British Documentary Photography and the Gothic

By Martin Parr Foundation

Events

With images spanning a period of more than 80 years depicting Britain from the post-war to the present era, Dark Tales explores the complex relationship between the Gothic and British documentary photography. The photographs in the exhibition, on display at Martin Parr Foundation from 17 September - 20 December, reveal waning industrial powers, claustrophobic domestic scenes, and menacing nocturnal activities, and includes work by Kjell-Åke Andersson, Bill Brandt, Anna Fox, Robert Frank, Don McC

Book Review: Burnt Eyes by Gilles Nicolet

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Publications

Some photobooks reveal their ambition slowly. Burnt Eyes by Gilles Nicolet captures your attention from the very first image, but its true strength lies in how consistently that sense of wonder continues throughout the book. It asks for time, attention, and a slower way of looking. The photographs move like memory itself — soft at the edges, returning to certain moments while letting others fade. For more than three decades, Nicolet has returned to Africa with his camera, and that long relati

All About Photo Presents 'Vida es Cuba' by David Saxe

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Events Contests

Every photographer arrives in Cuba carrying a certain set of expectations. Bright vintage cars, colorful facades, cigars, music, and perfectly preserved moments have become almost inseparable from the country's photographic identity. But every so often, a body of work reminds us that there are still new ways of seeing a place we think we already know. This month, we are pleased to present 'Cuba es Vida,' a solo exhibition by photographer David Saxe. Created over three journeys across the i

My Mother's Tender Script by Asiya Al Sharabi

By Asiya Al Sharabi

Publications

My Mother's Tender Script is the first photobook by Asiya Al. Sharabi. Through family photographs, handwritten address books, folded papers, and the personal documents left behind by her late mother, Shukriya, the book explores memory, illiteracy, family history, and the everyday ways one woman documented her life. Following her mother's death, Al. Sharabi inherited the small handbag she had carried everywhere. Inside were address books, folded scraps of paper, family photographs, medica

Dignity and Identity: Waste Pickers of Phnom Penh by Steff Gruber

By Steff Gruber

Photographers

In the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s rapidly growing capital, thousands of lives unfold far away from the city’s economic development. At the Dangkor landfill, a vast landscape of waste covering 31 hectares, hundreds of people spend their days searching through mountains of discarded materials in the hope of finding something valuable enough to sell. Plastic, metal, and glass become a fragile source of income. Using handmade metal hooks and simple tools, the waste pickers sort through t

Pictet Group Named Official Partner of Paris Photo

By Prix Pictet

Events

Pictet Group, the independent Geneva-based investment partnership founded in 1805, and Paris Photo, the world’s leading international art fair dedicated to photography and image-based art, announce a landmark new partnership. Pictet Group has been named Official Partner of Paris Photo, bringing together two institutions united by a shared belief in the enduring power of photography. This collaboration marks a significant milestone for Pictet Group, whose commitment to photography and the visu

All About Photo Presents 'Where the Earth Remembers' by Oliver Klink

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Events Contests

All About Photo is pleased to present Where the Earth Remembers, a powerful new online solo exhibition by award-winning fine art photographer Oliver Klink. Through intimate black-and-white photographs created across rural communities in Central and Eastern Europe, Klink explores the enduring relationship between people, memory, faith, and the land. Some landscapes preserve more than geography—they hold generations of stories. In Where the Earth Remembers, Oliver Klink turns his lens toward co

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Marco Parenti

Italy (b. 1952)

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I am a self-taught photographer from Milan, Italy, where I was born and lived for most of my life, working as a university lecturer until 2023. Photography became a true passion in 2007, when I began studying the work of the great masters who shaped my vision. Their influence taught me to see the expressive power of light, shadow, shape, color, and the often-overlooked details of everyday life.

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Rory Lewis

United Kingdom (b. 1982)

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Rory Lewis is a British portrait photographer whose work carries the language of the Old Masters into the present day. A historian before he was a photographer — he read Medieval History at King's College London — Lewis came to the camera through painting: Holbein's court portraits, Caravaggio's tenebrism, Rembrandt's candour. Twenty-three years on, that education still governs the work, which he describes simply as capturing history, one portrait at a time.

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Behzod Boltaev

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Born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, Behzod Boltaev is a visual artist and street photographer whose work explores human presence, architectural geometry, and the dramatic interplay of light and shadow. His photographic practice was shaped in part by his family heritage, as he learned the fundamentals of visual language from his father. Through his images, he brings together observation, composition, and atmosphere to reveal poetic connections between people and the spaces they inhabit.

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John Gubertini

Italy

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John Gubertini is an Italian photographer and visual storyteller based in Tenerife, Canary Islands. With more than forty years behind the camera, his work is rooted in observation rather than spectacle, seeking the quiet emotional truths hidden within everyday life. His photography has a strong connection with black-and-white imagery, where light, shadow, and silence become essential elements of the narrative. His photographs often explore themes of memory, identity, vulnerability, and the invisible dialogue between people and their environment.

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Richard Evnen

United States (b. 1955)

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I was 8 years old in Lincoln, Nebraska, when my dad gave me my first camera. I cherished it. I also loved our family tape recorder—a novelty in 1963—and a listening device with a parabolic dish called “The Big Ear.” These things, plus a chromed Raleigh bike, were prized possessions. I had mobility and means to record sights and sounds. After many years in the midwest—running a business and raising a family—I moved to Sedona, Arizona.

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