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The Art Assignment
News Photographer - Alec Soth
Season 2
Episode 38
Alec Soth is a photographer who works on large-scale projects that play with the boundaries between his roles as a fine art photographer and photojournalist. This week, he asks you to take on the role of a newspaper photographer and report on a story from a different perspective.
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