I was first sent to the Dordogne Valley in southwestern France more than two decades ago to shoot a story about a truffle farmer for a food magazine. It was late November, the weather was bleak, there was a gasoline shortage, and I was very worried about what I could possibly photograph in that dank, bare-treed time of year.
Once I swung around a curve in the road that revealed Beynac, one of many castle towns that line the Dordogne River, I couldn’t resist the urge to pull the car over and shoot.
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