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Carny: Americana on the Midway
Photographer, Virginia Lee Hunter
Introduction by Peter Fenton






Virginia Lee Hunter returned to documentary and portraiture photography in 1990. She began photographing carnies and the carnival midway in 1995, traveling across the states with different carnivals. With award-winning BBC filmmaker Alison Murray, Hunter has created a documentary film, also called Carny, scheduled to air in 2007. She works for Greenpeace, photographing environmental issues worldwide.