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Alan Chin’s Infinity Goes Up on Trial

A meditation on answering the question, “How do you photograph a microbe?”
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Brian Palmer at a veteran’s grave in Evergreen Cemetery, in Richmond, Virginia. Some of the city’s most notable Black residents — bankers, editors, doctors, ministers, funeral directors, educators — were buried here and in East End Cemetery during the height of Jim Crow segregation. Palmer and his wife, Erin, and a small group of volunteers have been painstakingly restoring the grounds of these

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