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Leah Bendavid-Val is the former director of photography publishing for National Geographic Books and the author of several works on photography, including National Geographic: The Photographs, Song Without Words: The Photographs and Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy, and Stories on Paper and Glass: Pioneering Photography at National Geographic. She has curated photography exhibitions for museums worldwide.