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Samuel Wooten Photography

21 October 2002 No Comment

I stumbled across a stunning collection of photographs at Journey Through Islam. Wooten has photographed from Morrocco to China. I particularly like his pictures of the village elder from China and Mali.

Wooten is an unusual name, and I immediately thought he may be related to the two other Wootens I’ve heard of before, Futureman Wooten and Victor Wooten, both from a band I used to listen to, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. If so, that’s one very creative family; but mighty Google did not reveal any connection…

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