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No, no, it’s not a box with me in it.

Fellow photog and all-around cool guy Drew has decided to clean out his collection of fun stuff by giving it away to one lucky winner! Here’s a snippet from the supplier of awesome himself:

This is a box of mysterious stuff that I collected, amassed, was given, begged, borrowed and stole. This is a box of Awesome that I am going to give to one lucky reader. I’ll be revealing a few of the items that are in the box in the next few days. There is a lot of stuff in the box. You can already see that there is a T-Shirt in the box. Are there more? What else is there? How can you win?

The answers to these questions can be discovered by simply entering the contest and waiting for the winner to be announced.

Go on now, why are you still here? The Big Box of Awesome awaits!

About a week ago, I entered a contest to win a copy of Reza Deghati’s new book, Reza War and Peace, via a simple blog comment on a post about the book. The blog, Epic Edits, is run by Brian Auer and it covers just about everything under the umbrella of photography. Book reviews, photographers, Photoshop, editing, contests, hardware, tools, technique – you name it.

To my surprise, I received an e-mail this morning from Brian that I had won! (Thanks, Brian!)

I can’t wait to dig into this book. There’s a lot to be said about Reza, but this little snippet from the Epic Edits review that sums up how he became a photographer:

One particular instance he wrote about was in a local marketplace. An old woman was selling fish of poor quality. He was compelled to take her photo and learn her story. She told him that she would find fish left behind or on the ground from other vendors and try to sell them to people who had less money than she. The local law enforcement always had their eye out for her and she was forced to hand over part of her meager earnings. Reza told the story in his school paper, and thus began his journey into professional photojournalism.

I can’t wait to receive the book, since I can imagine that the story is as compelling as the photography. Maybe I’ll share some stories about Reza (from the book, of course) in the future.

More on Reza Deghati
The book review on Epic Edits
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Get the book: Reza War and Peace