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 has appeared in publications like and the , shot “Chicagoans of the Year” (page 74), and one honoree held particular significance: his former professor at Columbia College. “I never got the feeling that Dawoud was all that interested in my artwork during school. He was fairly tough on me,” Kasnic says. “Him sending me a note after the shoot saying he had fun was meaningful to me because I had never known, like, what do you actually think of me?”