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Simple Magical Things

"Everyone is surrounded by the amount of magic that he is able to see."

In photography, as in life, nothing can be perfect. Kristina Makeeva sees the ideal as dull. Novice photographers learn combination and color from previous generations' experiences to step back from this when they begin their journey as a creator. As with artists, few initially painted with dots or brushstrokes, fingers, and dashes; at first, almost everyone learns how to draw a realistic image.

Kristina Makeeva is a photographer and author of the global project "Simple Magic Things," a seeker of magic in the ordinary. Developed as a photographer for 14 years.

During this time, there have

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