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Eric Slomanson’s evolution as a photographer was natural and predestined. He was born and raised in New York to creative parents — his mother a writer, and his father an architect — so they naturally encouraged his artistic endeavors. Eric’s first camera was a Rolleiflex, which he used at a summer camp where he spent as much time in the darkroom as he did in the sunshine.
His first inspiration to become a photographer was his father’s slides of European vacations. Every October, Eric couldn’t wait for his parents to come home to see his father’s cinematic magic as light pierced darkness from a Kodak Carousel slide tray across the living room onto a white screen. He can still hear the sound of each slide dropping as the tray moved forward: poetry of which Don Draper waxed.
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