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Ten days ago I introduced you to the Vadukul Brothers, today I want to tell you about RJ Muna.

His real name is Raja John Muna and he been around for quite some time. According to John Callan's profile of Muna in PhotoMedia, “Muna began his professional career shooting street demonstrations in Berkeley at age 16, in the waning years of the Vietnam era. The protests were just a few miles from his current studio. The images he captured were not so far from the style he practices today. From the time he first picked up his father's 35mm camera when he was 13, he has strived to capture images of ideas rather than instances in time.”

He got his professional start in the Bay Area shooting commercials for IBM. He continues to shoot the highest profile commercials you see out there on magazine stands. But he knows how to balance professional drive with personal passion.

Peter Marshall describes Muna's art work in The Apparitions, by saying:

These pictures may have been created about the idea of apparitions or glimpses, but they are glimpses that exist and are viewed in the context of a relationship between two people, male and female, and they gain a part of their power from their latent eroticism.

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