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JONATHAN SAUNDERS
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"In the stories that Saunders tells, one is taken quickly from the familiar to the fathoms, as if walking into the ocean and suddenly dropping off a sand ledge.
And with his interview, I found myself dropped into the creative depths where the transcendent lives alongside the routine and the willingness to have
one’s heart broken open by the disorienting sadness of love lost or the circumstances of a stranger carry equal weight..."
- Alison McCreery
“Jonathan photographs rocks. Not like you or I would just take a photo of a rock, Jonathan makes that rock hurt you.”
- a female stranger, whose name was Victoria, a long time ago
“His convictions and practices mark his life with a stream of light reaching from earth to heaven.
He was a firm believer in the sublime doctrines of [myth] for the betterment of man in his daily life and his surety for eternity.
He surrounded his life with an impregnable wall of integrity and truth which was invulnerable against the poisonous darts of culmy and slander.”
- 1923 obituary of my great, great, great grandfather that stated it best for the man he may have been and who I hope to become
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International Photobook Festival
Photobook Dummy Award - Shortlist - Tracy / Sharpe
Best Photo Books Of The Year - Jörg Colberg, Conscientious
Dies Mercurii XI Julius MMXII
International Photobook Festival
Photobook Dummy Award - Shortlist - White Oak
Best Photo Books Of The Year - Jörg Colberg, Conscientious
Dies Lunae XI Julius MMXI
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iliketotellstories.com is an Honoree in The Webby Awards
Alongside NPR, Bravo’s Top Chef and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360
Eddie Adams Workshop Selectee
Best of Barnstorm Award - Age 20
BFA - Awarded On Experience, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Photography Award Annuals - Communication Arts, American Photography, & Graphis
TIME Cover - Radio Entertainer Don Imus
TIME Cover - Italian Astrophysicist Sandra Savaglio
Time, People, Forbes, Fortune, Texas Monthly, US News & World Report, Los Angeles Times Magazine
Money, Smart Money, Barron’s, Sierra Club, Philadelphia Magazine, Cincinnati Magazine
Business Week, ABA Journal, Bloomberg Markets, Vonage, Twisted Entertainment
Simon & Schuster, Fiocchi Ammunition, CFO, UCLA Magazine
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Photo District News Interview: Jonathan Saunders Windows To The Soul
Photo District News Interview: #1RN Studio Profile / Interview
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