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He received the 2002 pulitzer prize for feature photography which he shared with stephen crowley, chang lee, james hill, and ruth fremson. Laforet has been awarded 3 of the prestigious cannes lions platinum, gold, silver for his commercial directing work. I first game across vincent laforet not long after my husband and i had come back from our one year vegas wedding anniversary. Were expecting to have the book published by the holidays at the end of this year, and its looking right on course. But more than that, this book takes time to understand and appreciate to its fullest potential. Vincent laforet takes the most amazing night time aerials i have. As seen on cbs news sunday morning and cbs news this. The exhibition shares its name with the title of laforet s newly released publication, which.
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