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Deja Vu

s.502, 2013 & s.81, 1962

It wasn't until he had arrived in Salzburg for the 2013 session Power in Whose Palm? The Digital Democratization of Photography that photographer Stephen found out about his father Brian's shared experience. Brian had come to Salzburg more than 50 years earlier for a session on a very different topic: American law and legal institutions. Stephen explains: "I had no idea that he had participated in a Salzburg Global session until the second day of my session when I wandered around the grounds and was struck by a powerful sense of déjà vu... I assumed it was Julie Andrews speaking to me until it crashed into my mind that I'd seen all this in the family photo album. I didn't quite believe it, and I asked Susi [Seidl-Fox, Salzburg Global Program Director] to check the records, and there he was. The 1962 seminar is still vivid in my father's mind."

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