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Chris Verene, My Twin Cousin's Husband's Brother's Cousin's Cousins, 2003

























Chris Verene, Mercedes Will Soon Have a Half-Sister Named Lexus, 2005

























Chris Verene, The Same Day They Signed the Divorce Papers a Tornado Hit the House, 2007

























Chris Verene, Rosie Meeting Elanor and Doris, 2001

Chris Verene has been making documentary photographs about his family's rural Illinois hometown of Galesburg for the past two decades. There's an interview here.

Edit: I got to see his book at Look3 in 2013, and it was the funniest, most heartbreaking, most full-of-ordinary-life photo book I've ever held in my hands.

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