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considered himself "acutely shy". Metzker loved classical music, history and drawing, but his passion for photography was cemented when his mother gave him a camera at age 12. Photography "gave him a connection, a way of formally encountering the world and expressing his love for it, or what he calls his belief “about the goodness of things." Metzker would develop photographs in his bedrooom, winning numerous high school competitions sponsored by
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