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Hi, this is Ebody and X and welcome to another episode of the Candid Frame.

Well, for the last couple of weeks,

I've been on vacation in New Orleans, which is a wonderful city. It was my first time. And not only

didn't my wife and I have a wonderful vacation, but it was just a great opportunity to pull out my

camera and make a lot of images. The city is just, just marvelous. And as you well

know, the events of the hurricane about seven or eight years ago was really a devastating one for

that city. But it's been managing to build itself back up, not just in terms of its infrastructure,

but also in terms of what's been happening with the people.

And one of the things that I wanted to do when I went down there was to have an opportunity

to talk with a photographer who lives in that community.

And today's guest, Joshua Man Pele, is just such a man.

He's also the owner of a gallery called the A Gallery, and it's a gallery

that he started back in the 70s at a time when fine art photography was not considered to be fine

art. The market for such work was not considered on par with what was happening with paintings

and sculptures. It was pretty much thought about as a collection of snapshots that, you know, might be able

to procure a couple hundred dollars, but not the tens of thousands or millions of dollars

that artwork was going for at the time.

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