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Veteran Photo Editor Mike Davis on Editing Your Own Work
March 15, 2017
The first photograph in the opening sequence of images in Danny Ghitis’s self-published book Deep Valley, Dark Days, which Mike Davis edited. When sequencing images, Davis looks for a “third effect,” the “interaction between two images that makes you feel something that is more than either of them would have been alone,” he says.
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