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Don Chase (1953-) American photographer and author. Don began to photograph with a plastic brownie that had a crack, which he sealed with chewing gum, as a 14-year old teenager, in May of 1967. He is a self taught artist who gravitated to the street for his initial subject matter. After nearly forty years of having diverted his attention to the realities of making a living, he has undergone a process of self-rediscovery that was prompted after his mother's passing in 2003. Since then he has created work in 7 themes and most recently has printed his earliest work. He has re-discovered his original thought process when shooting in New York's Lower East Side and named it Strips. Shot as brief photo essays, they demonstrate his story-telling approach, which he assembles into sequences of 3 or more images as he had originally intended.