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both beginners and seasoned adventurers alike

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Mayflies Empowerment highlighting both the preservation ofMayflies celebrates radical self expression in a collection of studio portraits. For seven years, Amsterdam based photographer Darren Smith traveled across three continents, capturing moments of radical self expression and human connection at festivals, spectacles, and cultural gatherings. His work, Mayflies, presents 122 studio portraits of real people in moments of vivid transformation, stripped of background to focus purely on their presence and