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‘I love awkwardness. Some honest, little fleeting moment’, says photographer Erica Shires. ‘This could be anything from a detail of a bent wrist or a subtle personal gesture, to a look the model gives me. I am a quiet shooter, giving minimal direction. Many of the images evolve as my model settles into this quietness. I am inspired by creepy stories, ghosts, old children’s toys, doll heads – things with scars and past lives. Memory’.
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