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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Backstage: Santiago Mostyn '04

Published Friday, September 4, 2009

Meet Santiago Mostyn: mover, shaker, photograph maker
Calhoun ’04

Q What was your favorite picture book or fable growing up?
AWhen I was 3 my father sent me, for my birthday, a copy of “The Family of Children,” a book of black-and-white photographs that aimed to be a survey of childhood all over the world, through different cultures. I had no conception of adulthood at that point, so the children in this book became, over these first years that I spent constantly leafing through the photographs, something like contemporaries or even friends. I would place myself with the...

#1 By Akinyele Sadiq 9:50p.m. on September 11, 2009

Good interview. Thanks for the update. Santiago is my son, and I haven't heard from him since May or June. Were any of his photos included with the interview?

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