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Ian Campbell Dark Water Analysis

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Ian Campbell is an artist from Kansas City, Missouri, where he is an MFA candidate in Photography and Integrated Media at Ohio University. He has show his work in different galleries in the USA and this one is in the exhibition located at Trisonlini Gallery, 405 Baker Center, Athens, Ohio. He grew up in homeschooling family with 6 younger siblings. He spent much more time to explore the Midwest landscape when his grandparents gave him a camera, photography quickly became a passion. He study at Wheaton College, Illinois, completed a semester-long program at the New York Center, and received his BA from Wheaton. After graduating, Ian went through a series of unlikely jobs: artist’s assistant, making beaded bookmarks, washing windows, and driving a taxi. …show more content…

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