- 19th June 2013
- Working with photographers in 23 countries.
Previous Competitions
Lets Face It 9 Portraiture
The Portrait Award
BRIEF
As always we encouraged entrants to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying their subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Lets Face It 8
The Portrait Award
This year for the first time we are including video portraits as well as stills, video entries will obviously be judged separately.
We feel that the inclusion of video is in keeping with the convergence of technologies, the acceptance of video as fine art and the requirements from commercial buyers. I hope the inclusion of video will kick start photographers who 'keep meaning to' experiment with video and directing.
Take a look at a couple of shorts made by Barney Edwards for inspiration - Liam and Graham along with thoughts on the 'hybrid' portrait from both technical and aesthetic aspects.
As always we encourage entrants to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying your subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals.
YOU DO NOT HAVE BE AN LPA MEMBER TO ENTER THIS COMPETITION BUT YOU NEED TO REGISTER. The LPA does not pass on our database details to third parties so please give us all of your contact details as this makes life a little simpler for us when we 'really' need to contact you.
Categories
Judges will be awarding Prizes for entries in the following categories :
Single image
Series of images: up to six related images
This category allows photographers to highlight work from an ongoing essay or body of work.
Images may be either Black & white or colour
You can add a caption up to 100 words with your entry.
FILE SIZES - Please note that your upload files need to be saved at 72 dpi - exactly 475 pixels along the longest edge and 85Kb maximum size.
If you are having problems compressing your file, please read the compressing your file page for a step-by-step guide.
Entry Fees LPA Members Single image entry: £8.00
Series of two to six related images: £12.00
Non Members Single image entry: £12.00
Series of two to six related images: £16.00
Video/Film entries
Please upload one still image from the video shoot.
Type VIDEO and the 'TITTLE' + synopsis in the caption box.
Send the video file to us via YouSendit along with the tittle of the peace and your name and email address - to kevin(at) lpa-management.com
Acceptable file types
mp4, avi, mov, wmv, flv.
Mp4 files encoded in h.264 format are ideal.
File size is limited to 140Mb per video.
Video player dimensions - 640x360
Video entry fee - £12.00
Prize
Exposure – critical to every photographer’s career – is the ‘REWARD’ offered by the London Photographic Association Awards. Every person who enters our competitions can benefit from this.
EXHIBITION - winners and commended images will be exhibited online as a Featured Exhibition .
Video - Winners and finalists will be exhibited on LPA-movingPictures website.
Gold, Silver and Bronze winners receive a years free membership to the LPA.
All Gold, Silver and Bronze winners will be interviewed by the LPA and published on the website.
All Gold, Silver and Bronze winners can apply to have their fine art prints sold through Gallery 1839 .
SOCIAL NETWORKING - all of the above information and galleries will be networked. We work hard to communicate news about the LPA and our members far and wide. Benefits of being part of the LPA website include social media marketing through social networking sites, business networking sites, social bookmarking sites, video sharing sites, photo sharing sites, a forum and blog. These expose you - our members - to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.
All entries are displayed in the entrants’ gallery within twelve hours of receipt on our server. After the publication of winners and finalists, all entrants and their images are added to our database and the photographers can be searched for in the ‘Photographers Directory ’.
Please read our competition Terms and Condition.
LPA regularly markets it’s photographers to the Advertising, editorial and design business through our email newsletters and exhibitions. LPA press releases detailing all of our competition winners go out to the press, galleries, e-zines, magazines and commissioners of photography world-wide.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
The Nude 3
The Nude - In Association with Gallery 1839
I’m sure an image sprang immediately to mind when you read the title of this competition. The male and female body have constantly performed for the camera throughout the history of photography - in ways that may seem natural, erotic, seductive, sculptural or simply descriptive.
There are many amazing photographs where the human body has been unwrapped and imaged in an exciting and unusual way. The surreal playfulness of Man Ray’s muse or Bill Brandt’s contortion of the female body in front of a coastal landscape are both great examples.
All sorts of bodies have found their way in front of the camera for many different reasons and a good image of a nude subject needs to play with a specific idea about imaging the body to bring us something, as well as someone, new to look at.
In the hands of a contemporary photographer we hope the body as subject will fire your imagination and encourage you to go beyond familiar ideas to create something compelling, perhaps even fun.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Still Life 5
Still life photography owes much to the tradition of painting. The beautifully crafted still life paintings found in museums are records of an intense experience of light, form and colour.
Still life photography concentrates on these formal properties and has attracted some of the most influential photographers of all time. The images of early masters of the art such as Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Andre Kertesz and Minor White still look 'modern'. In the commercial sphere the lavish attention to detail in the work of some food photographers, for example, continues this tradition.
By crafting something that is more than a picture 'of' something, a good still life can evoke emotion, playfulness and reflection. The abstract quality which sometimes enables the viewer to experience form and space before seeing 'objects' can challenge the usual associations of the camera and the tangible world.
LPA is delighted to honour this long tradition. We encourage both classic styles and new ideas which may stretch the notion of 'Still life photography'. Images can be studio set-ups, found objects photographed in-situ or digitally manipulated creations. We are expecting to see a beautiful gallery. Dig through your collection and find those gems!
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Lets Face It 7
Welcome to the 2011 London Photographic Association awards for portraiture. The images in this book illustrate the breadth of skill contained within the LPA. Entrants were asked to interpret the brief as they wished, and the result is the images you see in this book. The photographers have stayed true to everything which defines great portraiture: intelligent character studies based on intimacy and intrigue.
We were delighted to receive entries from 16 countries representing a wide range of photographic styles, background and influences. Entries came from commercial and fine-art photographers, mirroring the reach of the LPA within today's photographic practice.
The LPA extends its thanks to all the photographers who entered the 2011 London Photographic Association awards for portraiture.
With thanks to this years judges Judges
Nick Hall - Picture Editor of The Independent Magazine.
David Edmunds - Creative Director of LPA-movingPictures.com and curator of Gallery 1839.
Alex Robertson - Deputy Picture Editor on the New Zealand Herald.
Exhibition is supported by a catalogue and runs until 30th April 2011.
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Urbanscape 3
Urbanism a. The character of city life. b.the study of this.
By way of a brief we would like to leave you with a some ‘hopefully’ well chosen quotes which we hope will inspire you.
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity”. Lewis Mumford
“They're very popular with retailers and municipalities who like it because it gives a sense of place, the New Urbanism so popular with customers, popular with tenants and municipalities. It's a great environment for us.” Les Morris
“As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby”. Susan Oliver
“We're seeing the attractiveness of high-rise, high-density, centre-city living. But the suburbs are fighting back”. Susan Oliver “Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love”. Chris Noth
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Landscape 3
Landscape 1. An extensive area of scenery as viewed from a single aspect
By way of a brief we would like to leave you with a some ‘hopefully’ well chosen quotes which we hope will inspire you. You may include the sea, animals and figures in your pictures.
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.”
Andrew Wyeth
“Horses make a landscape look beautiful”
Alice Walker American writer, b.1944
“Landscape shapes culture”
Terry Tempest Williams
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment”.
Ansel Adams
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
The Nude 2.
I’m sure an image sprang immediately to mind when you read the title of this competition. The male and female body have constantly performed for the camera throughout the history of photography - in ways that may seem natural, erotic, seductive, sculptural or simply descriptive.
There are many amazing photographs where the human body has been unwrapped and imaged in an exciting and unusual way. The surreal playfulness of Man Ray’s muse or Bill Brandt’s contortion of the female body in front of a coastal landscape are both great examples.
All sorts of bodies have found their way in front of the camera for many different reasons and a good image of a nude subject needs to play with a specific idea about imaging the body to bring us something, as well as someone, new to look at.
In the hands of a contemporary photographer we hope the body as subject will fire your imagination and encourage you to go beyond familiar ideas to create something compelling, perhaps even fun.
Send us your photographs of the human form in all its complexity - whether your visual opinion is driven by an aesthetic, documentary or, even a political perspective.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Lets Face It 6
The Portraiture Award - As always we encourage photographers to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying your subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals.
Judges:
David Edmunds - Agent & producer, Gallery 1839
Bill Procter - Creative director, Bluemove Communications -
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Love & Pain & Beauty
Love and Pain and Beauty
"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad".
'Henry Bromel', Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
My Back Yard 5
My Back Yard …. the good , the bad and the down right ugly.
What do you consider to be your back yard? Your block? Your neighborhood? Your town or city? The more expansive of you might even consider it to be the planet we inhabit. Whichever way you look at it, your back yard is a very personal space – ideal subject matter for the documentary photography. This is an opportunity to comment on the people and places that are important to you, a chance to introduce us to the society, sights, secrets that are very special to your own back yard.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
The World Through Your Eyes
About the Competition:
The LPA managed the running of this competition on behalf of the The Digital Photo and Imaging Show. The winning images where exhibited at the DPI show on the 18th & 19th June 2009.Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Chapter 3
We invite you to enter this years Fashion photography competition with an open brief - Chapter 3.
Rather than the title of the competition dictating to you, we want your images to lead the way. Whether you are a dedicated fashion photographer or a creative with fashion images in your portfolio, the competition is open to you.
Bring fashion to us through either a single shot or through a series/story of up to six images. Let your pictures set the trend.
An exhibition + private view of the winners and finalists will be held at the Calumet Gallery London on 6th May 2009 - exhibition will run for a month.
Finalists will be asked to provide a 20 x 16 inch exhibition quality print or a high resolution file free of charge for use in the exhibition.
All Prints will be returned providing the appropriate packaging, courier charge or postage has been supplied.
File sizes.
Please note that your upload files need to be saved at 72 dpi - exactly 475 pixels along the longest edge and 85Kb maximum size. If you are having problems compressing your file, please read the HOW TO ENTER page for a step-by-step guide.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Lets Face It 5
The Portraiture Award - As always we encourage photographers to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying your subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals. You may enter a single image or a series of up to six related images. Images can be of both people and/or animals. Judges: Helen James - writer and photography historian. Sky Graham - photographers agent at Carolyn Trayler Agency. Donna Richmond - picture editor at the Times. A private view and continuing exhibition of the winners work will be held at Calumet gallery space on the 5th March 2009.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
My Back Yard 4
My back yard …. the good , the bad and the down right ugly.
What do you consider to be your back yard? Your block? Your neighbourhood? Your town or city? The more expansive of you might even consider it to be the planet we inhabit. Whichever way you look at it, your back yard is a very personal space – ideal subject matter for the documentary photography. This is an opportunity to comment on the people and places that are important to you, a chance to introduce us to the society, sights, secrets that are very special to your own back yard.
An exhibition of the winners and finalist images will be held at Calumet gallery space London. Private view 19th November 2008.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
The Nude
I’m sure an image sprang immediately to mind when you read the title of this competition. The male and female body have constantly performed for the camera throughout the history of photography - in ways that may seem natural, erotic, seductive, sculptural or simply descriptive.
There are many amazing photographs where the human body has been unwrapped and imaged in an exciting and unusual way. The surreal playfulness of Man Ray’s muse or Bill Brandt’s contortion of the female body in front of a coastal landscape are both great examples.
All sorts of bodies have found their way in front of the camera for many different reasons and a good image of a nude subject needs to play with a specific idea about imaging the body to bring us something, as well as someone, new to look at.
In the hands of a contemporary photographer we hope the body as subject will fire your imagination and encourage you to go beyond familiar ideas to create something compelling, perhaps even fun.
Send us your photographs of the human form in all its complexity - whether your visual opinion is driven by an aesthetic, documentary or, even a political perspective.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Still Life 4
Still life photography owes much to the tradition of painting. The beautifully crafted still life paintings found in museums are records of an intense experience of light, form and colour.
Still life photography concentrates on these formal properties and has attracted some of the most influential photographers of all time. The images of early masters of the art such as Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Andre Kertesz and Minor White still look 'modern'. In the commercial sphere the lavish attention to detail in the work of some food photographers, for example, continues this tradition.
By crafting something that is more than a picture 'of' something, a good still life can evoke emotion, playfulness and reflection. The abstract quality which sometimes enables the viewer to experience form and space before seeing 'objects' can challenge the usual associations of the camera and the tangible world.
LPA is delighted to honour this long tradition. We encourage both classic styles and new ideas which may stretch the notion of 'Still life photography'. Images can be studio set-ups, found objects photographed in-situ or digitally manipulated creations. We are expecting to see a beautiful gallery. Dig through your collection and find those gems!
File sizes.
Please note that your upload files need to be saved at 72 dpi - exactly 475 pixels along the longest edge and 85Kb maximum size. If you are having problems compressing your file, please read the HOW TO ENTER page for a step-by-step guide.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Chapter 2
We invite you to enter this years Fashion photography competition with an open brief - Chapter 2.
Rather than the title of the competition dictating to you, we want your images to lead the way. Whether you are a dedicated fashion photographer or a creative with fashion images in your portfolio, the competition is open to you.
Bring fashion to us through either a single shot or through a series/story of up to six images. Let your pictures set the trend.
An exhibition + private view of the winners and finalists will be held at the Calumet Gallery London on 24th April through to 23rd May 2008
Finalists will be asked to provide a 20 x 16 inch exhibition quality print or a high resolution file free of charge for use in the exhibition.
All Prints will be returned providing the appropriate packaging, courier charge or postage has been supplied.
File sizes.
Please note that your upload files need to be saved at 72 dpi - exactly 475 pixels along the longest edge and 85Kb maximum size. If you are having problems compressing your file, please read the HOW TO ENTER page for a step-by-step guide.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Lets Face It 4
The Portraiture Award -
As always we encourage photographers to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying your subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals.
You may enter a single image or a series of up to six related images.
Images can be of both people and/or animals.
A private view and continuing exhibition of the winners work will be held at Calumet gallery space on the 19th March 2008.
Finalists will be asked to provide a 20 x 16 inch exhibition quality print or a high resolution file free of charge for use in the exhibition.
All Prints will be returned providing the appropriate packaging, courier charge or postage has been supplied.
File sizes.
Please note that your upload files need to be saved at 72 dpi - exactly 475 pixels along the longest edge and 85Kb maximum size. If you are having problems compressing your file, please read the HOW TO ENTER page for a step-by-step guide.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Renaissance
This is a Charity Photographic Competition sponsored by the London Photographic Association. The Judges are, Eamonn McCabe, Mary McCartney, KT Tunstall and Sara Cremer. Winners will be exhibited at Proud Gallery + £2000 worth of prizes to be won!
We are looking for digital photographs in colour or black and white on the theme of Renaissance. Life is full of moments when the human spirit triumphs over adversity, when the human eye suddenly sees the world from a new perspective, when we rediscover a sense of awe and wonder. You are invited to capture through the lens those instances when we suddenly see the beauty, value and meaning of life.
Proceeds will be donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care.
For more information go to www.renaissancephotography.org
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Summer Open
As the name suggest this is our Summer Open competition. You are invited to submit images on any subject / genre you like. We will take this oportunity to see what's out there and hopefully we will be welcoming new members in to the fold as prize winner.
We are also on the look out for new work to represent through Gallery 1839.
Have a good Summer...........
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
My Back Yard 3
My back yard …. the good , the bad and the down right ugly
What do you consider to be your back yard? Your block? Your neighbourhood? Your town or city? The more expansive of you might even consider it to be the planet we inhabit. Whichever way you look at it, your back yard is a very personal space – ideal subject matter for the documentary photography. This is an opportunity to comment on the people and places that are important to you, a chance to introduce us to the society, sights, secrets that are very special to your own back yard.
Entries can either be a single image or a series of up to six related images.
You may supply a caption of up to 100 words to support your entry.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
urbanscape 2
By way of a brief we would like to leave you with a some ‘hopefully’ well chosen quotes which we hope will inspire you.
Urbanism a. The character of city life. b.the study of this
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity”.
Lewis Mumford
“They're very popular with retailers and municipalities who like it because it gives a sense of place, the New Urbanism so popular with customers, popular with tenants and municipalities. It's a great environment for us.”
Les Morris
“As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby”.
Susan Oliver
“We're seeing the attractiveness of high-rise, high-density, centre-city living. But the suburbs are fighting back”.
Susan Oliver
“Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love”.
Chris Noth
“The people really are what make New York City great”.
David Dinkins
“Business as usual will not be accepted by the people of this city”.
Harold Washington
“I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth”.
Steve McQueen
“I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution”.
George Murray
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
landscape 2
By way of a brief we would like to leave you with a some ‘hopefully’ well chosen quotes which we hope will inspire you. You may include the sea, animals and figures in your pictures.
Landscape 1. An extensive area of scenery as viewed from a single aspect
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.”
Andrew Wyeth
“Horses make a landscape look beautiful”
Alice Walker American writer, b.1944)
“Landscape shapes culture”
Terry Tempest Williams
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment”.
Ansel Adams
“The landscape represented a sanctuary of protection and peaceful comfort. I try to guard the beauty and privacy of it with respect and consideration”.
Walter Annenberg
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed”.
Ansel Adams
“What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed”.
Fay Godwin
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Passion
Fashion ……… putting the ‘Passion’ into fashion
The LPA Fashion Awards are looking for images from photographers who have a raw enthusiasm for their work and want to push the limits of fashion imagery. We are looking for ideas, idiosyncrasies and, above all, passion.
The competition theme is Passion n.
1 A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.
2 Ardent love.
3 a Boundless enthusiasm: Her skills as a photographer demonstrate her passion for the art-form.
The object of such enthusiasm: Fashion is his passion.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Lets face it 3
The Portrait Award -
as always we encourage photographers to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying your subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals.
Images can be of both people and/or animals.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
My Backyard 2
My back yard... the good , the bad and the down right ugly
What do you consider to be your back yard? Your block? Your neighbourhood? Your town or city? The more expansive of you might even consider it to be the planet we inhabit. Whichever way you look at it, your back yard is a very personal space – ideal subject matter for the documentary photography. This is an opportunity to comment on the people and places that are important to you, a chance to introduce us to the society, sights, secrets that are very special to your own back yard.
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
Still Life 3
Still life photography owes much to the tradition of painting. The beautifully crafted still life paintings found in museums are records of an intense experience of light, form and colour.
Still life photography concentrates on these formal properties and has attracted some of the most influential photographers of all time. The images of early masters of the art such as Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Andre Kertesz and Minor White still look 'modern'. In the commercial sphere the lavish attention to detail in the work of some food photographers, for example, continues this tradition.
By crafting something that is more than a picture 'of' something, a good still life can evoke emotion, playfulness and reflection. The abstract quality which sometimes enables the viewer to experience form and space before seeing 'objects' can challenge the usual associations of the camera and the tangible world.
LPA is delighted to honour this long tradition. We encourage both classic styles and new ideas which may stretch the notion of 'Still life photography'. Images can be studio set-ups, found objects photographed in-situ or digitally manipulated creations. We are expecting to see a beautiful gallery. Dig through your collection and find those gems!
Single Image winners and finalists gallery
Series winners and finalists gallery
My Best Shot
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Series winners and finalists gallery
Lets Face It 2
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Adsight 05
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In My Life
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A sporting chance
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Still Life 2
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Urbanscape with Figures
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Urbanscape 1
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Landscape with Figures
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Landscape
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Adsight 04
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All Along The Watchtower
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Lets Face It
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The Story So Far
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Don't Panic
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My Backyard 2
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still life
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enviromental
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fashion
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photo art
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