Between 2005 and 2009, I made over 1000 hand-altered Polaroids celebrating a poetic flowering of the West coast yoga tribe. This post is devoted to some of the men who stepped forward and offered up a pose and allowed themselves to be seen. 

Vinnie Marino

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Officer Steven Erik Milosevich

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Mark Blanchard

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Adriano Dos Santos

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Mother

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Andrew Abaria

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Ish Moran

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Brock Cahill

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Dani Scherrer

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Garth Hewitt

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Jeremy Brook

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Dice

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Vytas Baskauskas

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Anthony Hania

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Stephen Shaw-Naar

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Paul DaSilva

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Newton Campbell

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Ted McDonald

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Rudy Mettia

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Charles James

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Light Watkins

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Ricky Tran

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Matthew Reyes

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Brian Aganad

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John Sahakian

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Julian Walker

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Brad Keimach

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Erich Schiffmann

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Steven Espinosa

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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.” ~ Charles de Gaulle

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Ed: Kate Bartolotta