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Keith Carter’s Enigmatic Photographs Reveal the Invisible Bonds Between Humans and Animals
Keith Carter began to take his own pictures after he happened upon one of his mother’s color prints when he was 19. His mother made her living as a studio photographer in Beaumont, Texas, and the photo was a seemingly straightforward portrait of a young girl holding a basket of kittens. But it wasn’t the subject matter that struck Carter; it was the capture of the light.
When photographs are created by light falling on film, they show what was physically present at that particular moment in time, but some …