Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119444112 pages; 45 Photographs7 x 10 inches$50 US*Books will ship June 2025Family Amnesia is a visual tribute and love letter honoring the artist's Chinese American family roots in the U.S. The art book explores her family's multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed media collages, my grandfather’s photographs, my own captured images and archival material.The book project honors the past and current lives of Asian Americans and immigrants in the U.S. by examining the incalculable and traumatic impact that historical events like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act continue to have on the Asian American experience. This is a painful part of our American history. Betty Yu is reclaiming that narrative through her own personal family’s story. The book will feature her grandfather’s role as a founding member of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of NY, her mother’s plight as a garment worker who became a labor organizer, as well as her sister’s legacy as a community activist. Yu knows that her family's story is not unique. It is part of the larger collective Asian-American immigration experience.This book project reminds us that the rise of COVID-related anti-Asian violence is part of a larger history of systemic racism. As the U.S. government and corporate-run media continue to vilify China as a global threat, Family Amnesia recalls the anti-China and anti-Asian paranoia and hysteria that created the policies like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and the 1942 Executive Order that placed Japanese-Americans into internment camps. The book will also draw visually on geo-political history, recalling narratives that mocked China as the "sick man of Asia '' and that demonized Chinese as “Yellow Peril”. Betty Yu is an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer and activist born and raised in NYC. Yu integrates documentary film, installation, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice. Betty’s films and multimedia work has focused on labor, immigration, gentrification, abolition, racism, militarism, transgender equality among other issues. View Details

Family Amnesia

Betty Yu

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119451160 pages; 70 Photographs12 x 10.5 inches$50 US*Books will ship June 2025The Afterglow of Industry collects photographs and texts made during a 10-year project in which the artist repeatedly traveled the length of New Zealand, from its urban centers to its most remote landscapes. Through painstakingly produced large-format film photographs and extended texts, the book explores the aftermath of the industrial era and colonial project in New Zealand, reflecting on what our labor and dreams can mean in an age of late-capitalism and climate change.Chris Corson-Scott was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985. He is a leading New Zealand photographer who has exhibited extensively in New Zealand, with work in public collections including Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, and Victoria University, Wellington. View Details

The Afterglow of Industry

Chris Corson-Scott

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119376112 pages; 50 Photographs8 x 12 inches$50 US*Books will ship June 2025Mythoscape explores themes of transformation and self-discovery, where the journey through nature mirrors an inward journey through the psyche. It invites viewers to reconnect with the mythic dimension of nature, seeing it not merely as a backdrop but as an active participant in the human story—a space of encounter, danger, and transformation, where every element holds the potential for magic and deeper understanding.Azita Gandjei explores the symbolic relationship between humanity and the primal forces of nature, drawing on the archetypes found in myths and fairytales. She invites viewers on their own journey of self-discovery and transformation. Using visual language informed by shadows, reflections, and surreal compositions, her work is a means to bridge the false dichotomy between us and nature. We are one. Gandjei is represented by Gallery House in Menlo Park, where she is one of the permanent artists, and by Ilkaa’s Gallery & Atelier in Columbus, Ohio. In 2023, her work was selected in the de Young Museum Open, and she has been part of numerous group shows, including at the San Francisco Women Artist Gallery, Center for Photographic Arts and the Twin Pines Gallery. Carol Henry is a fine art photographer, curator and creative project consultant. Based in Kentucky, her photographic work has been exhibited in over 25 galleries and more than 150 exhibitions. Her extensive experience includes being a fine art print specialist for Ansel Adams' archives, and serving as the gallery director at Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California. Henry curated, 100 Years of Female Photographers Views of the Male Subject exhibited at The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, and at the Florida Museum of Photography. As founder of FotoSagá, a women's photography mentor program, and as a charter member of Women in Photography International, she amplifies photography’s ability to build community. View Details

Mythoscape: A Different World

Azita Gandjei

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119369284 pages; 238 Photographs10.5 x 11.25 inches$60 US*Books will ship June 2025Covering more than a half century of dramatic social and political change, Ressler’s Photographs is an important document that, through vivid images and an engaging narrative, provides insight and meaning to the complex world we live in today. Global in scope, but with a focus on the Americas, the book begins in the tumultuous 1960s just one year after the Summer of Love (1967), when the author was a young college student who photographed the counterculture, street life on New York City’s gritty Lower East Side, and icons such as Andy Warhol and later Nina Simone, among others. The book then catapults us into a First Nation reserve in Quebec, Canada, as we follow Ressler’s trajectory from novice ethnographic image-maker to mature photographic artist––a career that parallels and comments on the growth of financial empires and consumerism as well as shifting trends in photography itself.Susan Ressler Photographs: 50 Years, No End In Sight is an impressive retrospective that traces over fifty years of artistic development. It includes six major bodies of photographic work introduced in her own words, complemented by two interpretive essays: one by Eve Schillo on Ressler’s California work, and the other an afterword by Mark Rice. Although some of the images appear in Ressler’s previous Daylight monographs (Executive Order and Dreaming California), many are published here for the first time. These include “At Owner’s Risk” (her Canadian First Nation photographs), “From Analog to Digital” (an account of photography’s transition from analog film to digital media), and “Beyond Borders” (work from Europe, Asia, and Israel). The book ends with “American Stories,” including South America and the export of US culture abroad, before Ressler comes home to Taos, New Mexico, where she lives and continues to make photographs today.Susan Ressler is a renowned artist, author, and educator who has been making social documentary photographs for more than fifty years. Her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library and Archives Canada, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and many other important collections. A recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowships, Ressler is internationally exhibited and published. She has published two previous monographs with Daylight Books: Executive Order (2018) and Dreaming California (2023).Eve Schillo is Associate Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She has curated many notable and diverse exhibitions featured in LACMA's galleries dedicated to American, Latin American, Southeast Asian, Japanese, modern, and contemporary art, as well as those devoted to photography.Mark Rice is an award-winning author and professor of American Studies at St. John Fisher University near Rochester, New York. He has published several books and contributed essays on photography and visual culture to numerous scholarly journals. Rice contributed the afterword to Susan Ressler’s two previous Daylight monographs, Executive Order (2018) and Dreaming California (2023). View Details

Susan Ressler Photographs

Susan Ressler

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119390112 pages; 65 Photographs8 x 10 inches$50 US*Books will ship June 2025Unsupervised is an intimate look at the modern family. Kirsten Lewis' curiosity regarding the everyday routine of raising children is what led me to begin spending anywhere between 24 and 72 hours simply documenting a family's unscripted life. With the birth of social media came the ability for anyone to present a highly curated version of themselves and their life, oftentimes under the social pressures to appear "perfect". Lewis has watched this directly affect how parents, especially mothers, share their life with the outside virtual world. Ultimately, this creates a feeling of isolation and loneliness, as parents are completely disconnected from the reality of their life and their tailored life online. This photographic exploration is an attempt to reveal the similarities Lewis has witnessed by photographing my subjects' vulnerability, challenges, joy, hardships and humorous moments of raising a family.Kirsten Lewis is an international photographer, educator and public speaker based in Colorado. Over the last 2 decades she has traveled to over 40 countries to work with organizations, non profits, companies and individuals creating documentary based pictures to aid in fundraising, advertising, awareness and personal family archive builds. View Details

Unsupervised

Kirsten Lewis

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BOOK INFO Paperback, 5.5 X 8 In. / 136 Pages ISBN 9780983231615 List Price: $14.95 Featured by The New Yorker Edited by Will Steacy Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about moments that never became a picture. Conceived and edited by Will Steacy, each photographer was asked to abandon the camera and, instead, use words to recreate the image that never made it through their lens.Featuring contributions from over sixty photographers! Dave Anderson, Timothy Archibald, Roger Ballen, Thomas Bangsted, Juliana Beasley, Nina Berman, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Paul D'Amato, Tim Davis, KayLynn Deveney, Doug Dubois, Rian Dundon, Amy Elkins, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Gregory Halpern, Tim Hetherington, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Eirik Johnson, Chris Jordan, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Misty Keasler, Lisa Kereszi, Erika Larsen, Shane Lavalette, Deana Lawson, Joshua Lutz, David Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura McPhee, Michael Meads, Andrew Moore, Richard Mosse, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Laurel Nakadate, Ed Panar, Christian Patterson, Andrew Phelps, Sylvia Plachy, Mark Power, Peter Riesett, Simon Roberts, Joseph Rodriguez, Stefan Ruiz, Matt Salacuse, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aaron Schuman, Jamel Shabazz, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Mark Steinmetz, Joni Sternbach, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Peter Van Agtmael, Massimo Vitali, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris WebbFeatured in the New York Times, New Yorker, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, La Repubblica, Wired, Photograph, and Artnet View Details

Photographs Not Taken

Various Photographers

Book Details: FlexiboundISBN-13: 9781954119154128 pages; 74 Color Photographs8 x 8 inches$45 USFeatured by: “Smart Shot” - Saturday Guardian in print, The Guardian Online, Eye of Photography, Huck magazine, LensCulture, Exibart Street, and Ink. New York City subways – the century-old transit system has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, and Hurricane Sandy. It and the millions of citizens that rely on it as their daily lifeline will also survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Subwaygram captures mobile phone street portraits of the diverse community of riders two years before and two years after the first case was confirmed in New York City and the commonalities in the fleeting moments of their journeys.Chris Maliwat has been photographing the subway for many years and sharing the images on his Subwaygram Instagram feed. Daylight is pleased to offer this selection of favorites collected in the artist's first monograph. Chris Maliwat is a street-portrait photographer who captures surreptitious moments of everyday people on their journeys in the cities where they live. Aaron L. Morrison is a New York City-based journalist whose work on race, criminal justice and grassroots social movements has been published by The Associated Press, the global nonprofit news wire. "Chris Maliwat describes the New York subway as the first slot in a pinball machine. “Whenever I head down there, I know it’s going to be a mini adventure, like I’m about to be launched into the world,” he says. “I saw this woman waiting at Metropolitan Avenue/Grand Street station and wondered which world she was about to shoot out into. Are there people like her where she’s going? Is she headed to her tribe? I think so. Everyone finds their tribe in New York – that’s why people come here.”"-The Guardian, December 3, 2022. "I was (and continue to be) intrigued by the breadth of this project, and the empathetic lens through which he recorded his subjects. "-Lenscratch, November 18, 2022 View Details

Subwaygram

Chris Maliwat

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119314192 pages; 80 Photographs8.5 x 11 inches$50 USIntroduction by Debbie BentleyInterview with Linda ConnorFeatured in: Art Daily and Boulder Weekly.Dammed follows the roughly 1,450-mile main stem of the Colorado River, from birth in the Rocky Mountain National Park to its end at the border of Mexico, and the 16 dams and diversions along its course. The multi-year photographic project documents the river, dams, reservoirs, and people interacting with the river along this route. The intent of this environmental photography project is to bring attention to the increasingly arid condition of the Colorado River basin, and prompt discussion and learning about not only the Colorado River watershed, but of water supply in general.Debbie Bentley is a photographer and multi-disciplinary artist from Denver, Colorado. Her work focuses primarily on the documentation of places and environments, their connection to the internal parts of people, and the need as an artist to see and record this connectivity. Linda Connor’s peripatetic practice demonstrates a longstanding interest in the relationship between systems of belief and the natural world, and has seen her photographing wide-ranging subjects, from sacred sites and intricately jagged cliff faces, to antique plate-glass negatives from San Jose’s Lick Observatory and petrified bodies from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii. View Details

Dammed: Birth to Death of the Colorado River

Debbie Bentley

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119291128 pages; 100 Photographs8 x 10 inches$50 USIntroduction by David UngerFeatured in: The Guardian and Art Daily. In 1954, during the height of the Cold War, the CIA carried out a coup to overthrow the first democratically-elected president in Guatemala. In the months leading up to the coup, the CIA Station Chief in Guatemala City was Grossinger’s grandfather. Dying long before Grossinger was born, his presence still loomed like a mythological creature throughout much of her childhood. Serpent Tongue explores Guatemalan history through the lenses of power, identity and memory. Annie Grossinger is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work primarily focuses on global health, prison reform and the long-term effects of government policy on communities. Her work on prison reentry has been featured in Buzzfeed News, Curbed and most recently, a project in collaboration with the Corporation for Supportive Housing. David Unger is a writer, translator, and recipient of Guatemala’s 2014 Miguel Angel Asturias National Literature Prize for lifetime achievement. His latest novel,The Mastermind (Akashic, 2016) has been translated into ten languages including Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and Italian. View Details

Serpent Tongue

Annie Grossinger

Book Details: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781954119222 112 pages; 50 Photographs 7 x 9 inches $50 USForeword by Elinor CarucciGirlhood: Lost and Found explores the experience females face growing up and growing old in a world full of preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman. Lost objects coupled with intimate portraits of the artist and her daughter mirror one another, examining the desires women abandon to conform to unrealistic ideals in our culture, often losing sight of their identities as they maneuver society’s stereotypes. The discarded items offer the opportunity to reflect on what unreasonable expectations both the artist and the female collective can also leave behind, providing a chance to rediscover who they were before they learned how they were seen by the world. The book's forward is written by Elinor Carucci, a multi-award winning fine art photographer with work featured in many solo and group exhibitions and museums worldwide, as well as an impressive number of publications internationally.A group essay included in this publication shares thoughts from a variety of women ranging in age from 13-81 years old, including artist and filmmaker Laurie Simmons, renowned actor and musician Jill Hennesy, 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and educator Rania Matar, founder of wellness platform MWH Melissa Wood-Tepperberg, the artist’s daughter and son, Luna and Sergio Riva, and many more. Jamie Schofield Riva is a documentary and fine art photographer based out of New York City. Elinor Carucci is a Fine Art Photographer with work included in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide as well as publications internationally. Her work is in the collections of MoMA, The Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and many others. She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award, The Guggenheim Fellowship and NYFA in 2010, and published four monographs todate. Carucci teaches at the graduate programs of photography at School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery. View Details

Girlhood: Lost and Found

Jamie Schofield Riva

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119147136 pages; 76 Color Photographs8 x 10 inches$45 USFeatured in: The Guardian, The New York Times Review, Musee Magazine, Art Daily, Creative Review, and L’Oeil de la Photographie.Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude is a fine art photography book that highlights the experience of being alone in public. Scherl uses peopled restaurant interiors as a metaphor to explore the complexities of the subject of solitude. The subtle nuances of her lone diners visually define their experience. This long-term project spanning three decades, culminated during the Covid-19 pandemic. "The cinema verite' approach accentuates the portraits so that the camera is used to unveil truths in a documentary style." -Laura PressleyNancy A. Scherl is a fine art portrait photographer based in New York City. Ih this series, she used cinematic lighting and staged her subjects asking them to act out how they feel or behave when they dine alone in public. Laura Wzorek Pressley is an experienced Cultural Producer powering multi-faceted events serving local, national, and international communities. As a Certified Executive Director of CENTER in Santa Fe, she directs one of the most effective outcome-driven programs in the world for photography and lens-based media, CENTER’s annual Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium. View Details

Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude

Nancy A. Scherl

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BOOK INFO Hardcover, 8 X 8 In. / 96 Pages / 94 Color ISBN 9780988983175List Price: $39.95 “The breathtaking power of nature is captured in “#Sandy: Seen Through the iPhones of Acclaimed Photographers...",- The New York Times, November 14, 2014“...a collection of stunning, harrowing, and humbling images…”, - The Week, October 28, 2014Edited by Wyatt Gallery Text by Sean Corcoran and Eddie Brannan #SANDY is a book of iPhone photos of Hurricane Sandy by acclaimed photographers, including: Benjamin Lowy • Stephen Wilkes • Ed Kashi/VII • Hank Willis Thomas • Richard Renaldi • Lyle Owerko • Wyatt Gallery • Michael Christopher Brown • Ruddy Roye • Craig Wetherby • 13th Witness • Sam Horine • Andrew Quilty • Giles Clarke • Erica Simone • Yosra El-Essawy • Duffy Higgins • Brent A. Bartley • Dylan Chandler • Nicole Sweet In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated communities in the New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut areas. In response, Foley Gallery and photographer Wyatt Gallery organized an exhibition of iPhone photographs of the storm by the photographers listed above. Hundreds of people attended the one-night event, and almost 400 photographs were purchased. Over a year later, many residents are still struggling to regain normal living conditions. Pre-purchase this groundbreaking book today and help us remind the public that many people are still in need of assistance. View Details

#SANDY

Various Photographers

BOOK INFO Paper Over Board, 11 X 9 In. / 96 Pages / 45 ColorISBN 9781942084204 List Price: $45.00“...these fresh, layered and technically complex images examine the possibilities in the un-sensed and unimagined...”, - Artdaily, September 4, 2016“Kyne uses light and perspective to create a mysterious world that otherwise would go undiscovered.”, - Musee Magazine, November 8, 2016“...the photographs in A Crack in the World shift human vision into an extraordinary terrain, one where Kyne and her camera revel.”, - KQED Arts (NPR), November 16, 2016Photographs by Barbara Kyne Contributions by Susan Griffin A Crack In The World presents Barbara Kyne's photographs of the five acres which she and her partner share in Mariposa, California. Kyne photographs as a means understanding so-called reality, wondering what lies outside of the environment that she can detect with her own limited human biology. Ultimately, Kyne produces a photography of nature that does not rely on the nature genre, or even on the subject matter of nature for engagement or visual enjoyment, but instead examines the possibilities in the not-sensed and the imagined. A Crack In The World contains fresh and elegant, yet layered and technically complex photographs that inspire empathy for all beings, and the planet that sustains them. An accompanying essay by Susan Griffin examines the artistic and theoretical implications of this deceptively simple body of work.Barbara Kyne is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been shown at SF Camerawork, Photo Center NW, the Trition Museum of Art, The Kala Institute, and the Bedford Gallery, and is featured in many contemporary photography books and publications. View Details

A Crack in the World

Barbara Kyne

BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 11 X 10 In. / 148 Pages / 60 Color PhotographsISBN 9781942084488List Price: $45.00“Photographer Nish Nalbandian gives some of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees a face, a body, a voice. He invites us to identify, to feel compassion.”, - F-Stop Magazine, May 23, 2018“What makes his work different is its focus not simply on Syrian refugees as victims but on the diversity of their experiences.”,- Royal Photographic Society, July 2018Also featured by: Artdaily L'Oeil de la Photographie Professional Photographer MagazinePhotographs by Nish Nalbandian Foreword by Greg Campbell Contributions by Javier Manzano, Carmen Gentile, and Karam Shoumali A Handful of Dust is an essential collection of reportage for those following the conflict in Syria and its impact on the rest of the world.A Handful of Dust gives a glimpse into the approximately 3 million Syrians who have fled war in their home country and are living in Turkey. Nish has been following this story for several years, chronicling the circumstances of many whose lives have been upended and forced to flee. Most registered refugees don't live in camps, they live in Turkish towns and cities, alongside their new Turkish neighbors. While many refugees are very poor, and most find themselves in a precarious position, there are also working class, middle class, and wealthy Syrians who have made this exodus.Nish Nalbandian has photographed in more than thirty-five countries worldwide in a variety of environments and continues to cover Syrian Refugee issues. Nalbandian's awards include First Prize for Conflict photography in the 2014 IPA, the Gold Medal for War Photography in the 2014 PX3, and many more. View Details

A Handful of Dust: Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Nish Nalbandian

Book Details: Hardcover with Dust JacketISBN-13: 978-1-954119-11-692 pages; 45 Black & White Photographs11 x 9 inches$45 US“A Long & Echoing Light takes us on a deep and meditative journey, reframing the artist’s familiar interiors, routines and objects into softening abstraction, breaking their lines and finding solace in their presence during a long period of isolation during the pandemic.” - Michael FoleyFeatured in: LF Magazine.Over the course of the pandemic, Jon Plasse photographed familiar objects around his home. The resulting series, in turns subtle and startling, evokes the intensity, monotony and disorientation of life in isolation. Jon Plasse focuses his work on memorializing a special time, place or experience - often represented by personal loss, solitude, excitement or mystery.Chuck Kelton is a photographer who makes chemograms and photograms transforming light, chemistry and paper into abstract landscapes. He is also a master printer, for over 35 years handling the work of a wide variety of highly regarded photographers. View Details

A Long and Echoing Light: Notes from a Pandemic

Jon Plasse

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119307150 pages; 100 Photographs7 x 9.5 inches$50 US A Poor Imitation of Death is a complex and collaborative narrative about youth in prison: meshing photographs with the youth’s handwritten letters, poems, and artwork to create a unique and authentic voice that speaks about the realities of life in prison. It tells a harsh story: full of despair, raw emotion and injustice but also of incredible resilience, inner strength and huge potential for change. It indicts an inhumane and broken California prison system that has changed little over two decades. Ara Oshagan is a diasporic transdisciplinary artist, curator and cultural worker whose practice explores collective and personal histories of marginalization, displacement, identity, legacies of violence and (un)imagined futures. A descendant of communities uprooted from their indigenous land by the Armenian Genocide, he was born in Lebanon and displaced by war as a youth to the US. Oshagan has published three books of photography and has exhibited his artwork and public art internationally. World renowned for “radical kinship” and “boundless compassion,” Father Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang re-entry program in the US and a national model. He is the author of three books, including the 2010 New York Times bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. View Details

A Poor Imitation of Death: Youth in the California Prison System

Ara Oshagan

Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 978194208470996 pages; 36 Color Photographs10 x 10 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN Photographs by Charlotta María HauksdóttirForeword by David RosenbergEssay by Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir. Sense of Place consists of assembled and layered photographs of the artists homeland Iceland. The composite, textured landscapes are a re-creation of places and scenes that suggest the imperfections of memory as well as the interplay of effects between man and nature. Utilizing human fingerprint patterns in the work also evokes the uniqueness of our connection with nature and our impressions upon it.Charlotta María Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic artist based in California. Her work has been exhibited around the world, with solo exhibitions in the USA, Russia, and Iceland. She has received a number of awards and has been published in several magazines and books. Her work is part of numerous public and private collections all over the world.Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir is a doctor of Environmental Philosophy and an associate professor in Iceland. View Details

A Sense of Place: Imprints of Iceland

Charlotta María Hauksdóttir

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