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Austin Aviles holds a BFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He was a fellow at VCU Qatar from August 2017 to May 2018.
Austin works using methods of photography and photogrammetry to illustrate his experience of memory and displacement. He regards his Polaroids as sketches of moments in time and space encountered while exploring familiar and unfamiliar environments. He analogizes the capturing of a photograph to the commitment of a memory; the Polaroid being a physical manifestation of that memory.