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In 1942, Albert Camus wrote in his novella, The Stranger, “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”

"Unexpected Familiar" is a virtual exhibition of narrative photographs that blur the lines between reality and fiction while communicating larger truths. The images in this exhibition are rooted in domestic and everyday life, and as result, may feel familiar or trigger nostalgia— but with a twist of magical realism and/or surrealism. In the case of some images, this line may even be slightly ambiguous. Because each narrative is open-ended, each viewer is likely to have …