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2016 Festival | The Superlative Light
Season 2016
Episode 16
Documentary photographer, Robert Shults, went from being a homeless dreamer to a home-owning artist after taking photos of the brightest light source in the known universe, a laser in the basement of the physics department at The University of Texas. The Superlative Light is an uplifting story of an artist’s journey from obscurity to prominence and the photographs he made along the way.
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