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This photograph was taken in front of The High Museum, where a gallery show titled History Remixed: Road to Freedom and After 1968 was on display. I couldn’t help but try to get a shot of these two men holding hands walking past the gallery’s sign on the museum, which depicts Martin Luther King Jr. holding hands with fellow peaceful protesters. Alas, I wasn’t quick enough to get the shot. Instead, I decided to simply capture a moment between the two of them.

(Photo by Dustin Chambers)

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Wordsmith’s Bookstore held a fundraiser in Decatur last weekend. I arrived as The Sea Lions, a fantastic local indie/pop band, were just beginning to charge through the second half of their set. The two members of the band both take care of lead vocals and switch guitar and bass usually after every other song. The true charm was that all of their drum tracks were being played off of their iPod. Instead of shooting the band, I decided to turn my camera to the eclectic group of audience members. About half young hipster-folk, and the rest older women and men. Some drawn into the bookstore by the band, some there with the sole interest of saving the bookstore. The vibe was strangely harmonious. No rebellion from the younger folks and complete understanding and acceptance from the older folks. Truly something that could only be found in the neutrality of a bookstore.

(Photo by Dustin Chambers)

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This is a photo of the construction being done on and around the 14th Street bridge, which crosses over I-85. Word is it won’t be done ’til winter 2009. You can get all the info you could ever want on this project here.

(Photo and text by Dustin Chambers)

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Atlanta saw a record high temperature of 98 degrees this Sunday, beating out 1995’s June 8 record by one degree.  This kind of heat is not just uncomfortable, it can be down right debilitating.  So to combat its force, I went to my local swimming pool that is owned by a neighborhood friend, Margaret Harrington. Also in her 90s, Margaret has kept her retro backyard pool open to neighbors and friends for nearly sixty years.  The number of people who she’s taught to swim and dive (including myself) is legendary.
Photographed is Lily, doing what every Atlantan wished they could have been doing this past sweltering Sunday.

(Photo and text by Dustin Chambers)

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We combined two CL forces of nature — Editor in Chief Ken Edelstein and intern Dustin Chambers — and went out amongst the coffee-drinking people of Little Five Points to ask a very important question: what’s your problem?

Answers varied but, strangely, no one seemed to have a problem with McDonald’s filming a commercial that morning in the same parking lot that houses Aurora Coffee and Junkman’s Daughter. Go figure.

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This photo was taken during a peace vigil that followed a choral concert at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in downtown Atlanta. The All Saints’ choir performed a stunning suite of music entitled “The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace,” written by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins in 1999. Each of 13 movements takes us into, through and out of war, ultimately denouncing it. Photographed is Carol Miller, a fellow Atlantan and purveyor of peace, who, like many of the other attendees, stood in reflective silence and watched her candle’s flame grow stronger as the city’s light began to diminish.

(Photo and text by Dustin Chambers)

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