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Class Photos (Sears Class Portraits), 1999-
Sears Class Portraits is an ongoing photographic series that started in 1999 and will continue until Smith stops teaching. Every semester, Smith goes to a local photography studio with his students and sits for a group portrait. The series started at Sears, but since the portrait studio no longer exists, the project has moved on to other commercial studios.