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I ventured out to South Kensington this afternoon to see the new Diane Arbus exhibit that’s being hosted at the Victoria & Albert museum through January. As a long time fan of her photography, it was wonderful to finally see her prints. I highly recommend it, it’s an excellent show, featuring all of her iconic photos as well as her unseen work, several hundred prints in all. Even more fascinating were displays of her photo journals, notes, contact sheets, cameras and some of her darkroom equipment, documenting a bit of her working process. Maybe this is weird, but on seeing her well worn 35mm Nikon and Rolleiflex cameras on display, a shiver went up my back. To look into the same lens as all of her subjects across time… pure magic.