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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Leon Borensztein, “Sharon” (Kehrer Verlag, 2016)
Description: Photographer Leon Borensztein began Sharon (Kehrer Verlag, 2016), his most personal project, thirty years ago when his daughter was born: “Throughout my artistic career, I have been driven by the need to give voice to the unheard and unseen. This desire became a personal passion when my daughter Sharon was born. Just after her birth I felt there was something wrong, and slowly we learned that she was born with disabilities. I started photographing my daughter before she was born and I have never stopped.”
When Sharon was in her early teens, Leon gained full custody of her when...