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Some photographs start with a sketch. Ina Jang, the photographer behind this past weekend’s cover story on restitution for victims of child pornography, has been keeping sketchbooks since 2006. It was that year that Jan arrived in New York to study at the School of Visual Arts (Jang grew up in Seoul and later lived in Tokyo). She always draws in a black Moleskine, with a pen, never a pencil. It must be a Japanese pen, the Mitsubishi Uniball SIGNO, which has a very fine point. Jang buys them at Kinokuniya, a Japanese bookstore across from Bryant Park. If she doesn’t have this pen with her, she doesn’t draw.

Jang opened her sketchbooks for us to reveal the ways her drawings have informed her photography... (continuing reading)

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