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Jachna considers himself a poet with a camera, creating the visual equivalent of a Haiku. 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The two developed a lasting friendship and mutual admiration, but it wasn’t until years after Jachna’s passing that Temkin, by chance, began re-engaging with his mentor’s lifelong muse—water. For Jachna, water embodied the sacred and the abstract, using tonal contrasts and natural forms to explore themes of balance, life, and interdependence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"1052\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eTemkin’s own work now explores our inescapable reliance on water, capturing the massive infrastructure, like the Los Angeles Aqueduct, that delivers it. His photographs juxtapose sweeping vistas of engineered systems with aerial abstractions, revealing both the beauty and consequences of reshaping nature to meet human demand. 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