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home. He immediately fell in love with the technique, which he said rendered pictures more theatrical and removed any temporal notions. Benaïm has continued to use the printing technique until today, with lighting becoming one of his main points of focus. His work consists mostly of dimly-lit shots, yet using diffused light to bring the subject to the fore. He has been linked to influences
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printing through his search for premises to work in. During a visit, a huge print displayed inside the room caught his attention and drove him to research the process at his local library. Working from a book published in 1850, he developed his first gum bichromate picture in a soup plate at his
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