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Acknowledgments

Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll probably say that it’s not a good idea to be

around when I’m working on a book, because I’ll invariably ask to make a photographic

example of you. is book was no exception, and I’d like to thank Konrad Eek, Rossitza

Jekova-Goza, Emily Clinton, Jeanne Phyllis Verity Parkhurst, Hans Wendl, Rick Poland,

Regina Saisi, Joanna Silber, and Marz the cat for standing (or laying) there while they

were turned into example images. Special thanks to Annina Collier for accidentally be-

coming such a good cover model.

Also, a big thanks to the photography students of the 2008 Oklahoma Summer Arts In-

stitute. Always inspiring and fun to work with, they also served as willing models. Check

out www.oaiquartz.org to learn more about this exceptional, one-of-a-kind program.

anks, too to the grandmothers of GAPA—Grandmothers Against Poverty and

AIDS—an amazing NGO in South Africa composed of grandmothers who are trying to

hold their families and communities together in the face of the AIDS pandemic, while

simultaneously raising their own grandchildren, and fighting to improve the lives of

people in townships all over South Africa. Some images of them (and their grandchil-

dren) appear in chapters 8, 12, and 14. Check out www.gapa.org.za to learn more about

this amazing organization.

Finally, thanks to Dennis Fitzgerald ...