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A cluster of invitations on the door to D’Agostin’s old studio. Near the top right is an invite to a lecture he once gave in New York about his powerful experience teaching photography at a psychiatric hospital in Paris for people with eating disorders. “It was the most difficult challenge and the most beautiful experience I could have with photography,” he says. He actually shot this image of an emaciated French man taking his children to the public pool the day before he was set to begin teaching the class. It gave him goosebumps.