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On the Wall: The Photography of Kristen Dobbin
VINCENT TEETSOV
It’s not often that something about the Estonian-Canadian community will appear within the pages or on the website of a massively-distributed publication with almost 100 million monthly visitors.
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In November 2017, Kristen Dobbin’s photos and essay on Jõekääru Estonian Children’s Camp were posted on the website of The Washington Post.
For those readers, it illuminated a community story that most of the paper’s readers were probably unaware of until then. It drew attention to the multigenerational significance of the camp and the Estonian customs preserved there since it was opened in 1953.
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Photo: Kristen Dobbin
