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 Veronica Shukin
“One of photography’s opportunities is that you can take a picture of something perfectly normal and make it look unusual with interesting lighting,” says Veronica Shukin. A case in point is Shukin’s image of her sister standing against bookshelves, taken with a Canon PowerShot A95. The photo was made on class time, as 16-year-old Shukin was entirely home-schooled until last fall, when she took an introductory photo course with Marie Wuchich at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Shukin’s interest in the medium was sparked by her father, who himself teaches photography at DuPage and Purdue University in Indiana. “He kept telling me about the assignments he gave his students,” she says, “and it sounded like fun. Photography can give you a new perspective on anything and everything.”
—Russell Hart
 Kathryn Koran
Kathryn Koran says she makes photographs because they can express “inarticulate ideas” that words may fail to convey. In her intimate examinations of inanimate but homey objects—here, a lacy curtain made even more delicate by shallow depth of field—she evokes ideas of nostalgia and desire for family. This image and others in the series were created at family houses in Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio; Koran used a medium-format camera in part because its slower operation forced her to spend more time with nooks and crannies often taken for granted. A senior at the University of Dayton, Koran plans to pursue a master’s degree in photography and hopes to teach after graduation.
—Miki Johnson
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