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When I first went to
Eastside, I was rediscovering

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photography, which
meant rediscovering

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how to see photographically.

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What fascinated me about
drag racing is the people.

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I could instantly see that there
was a little kind of community

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over there at the track,
and these friendships

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cross racial lines.

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And the other thing
that I noticed

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is that women were
racing against men,

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and they were often winning.

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I wanted to explore
that community,

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to understand that community,
to say something about it

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visually.

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Within a year, I
knew that I was going

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to make this a
long-term project,

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and that I was going to build
up an archive of photographs.

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And I needed a
name for it, right,

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and came up with
Democracy of Speed.

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I made pictures
seriously at Eastside

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for about the next 10 years.

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Eastside became a real community
for me and remained so.

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I learned the history
of photography,

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and I learned that I like
writing about it just as

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much as I do making the
pictures themselves.

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It led to a book
project that I'm

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working on now about an American
photographer and filmmaker

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called Gordon Parks.

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And it led to the Holsinger
Portrait Project, which

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I'm co-directing, a
way of using portraits

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of turn of the 20th
century African-Americans

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in Charlottesville to explore
the history of this region

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and to explore it visually.

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I would not be working
on the things that

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are absolutely central
to my scholarship,

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and I have to say
to my citizenship,

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if I hadn't gone to
Eastside in 2002.

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