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Are you really my friend??

Produced with Zach Nugent

With Facebook, making friends is as easy as a click of the mouse. This simplicity can make for an interesting and sometimes complicated group of people. Some you know, some you’ve never met in your life, and some people you used to know, but aren’t talking to. These "friends" prompted Tanja Hollander, a fine art photographer based out of Portland, Maine, to create a project called “Are You Really My Friend?” Tanja decided to visit all her Facebook friends around the world at their homes, and photograph them, whether they were on talking terms or not.

Now she is going global:

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