CONWAY — In this day and age of cellphones, a long-running joke in the newsroom between award-winning Conway Daily Sun photographer Jamie Gemmiti and the reporting staff has been, “Hey, Jamie — talent’s one thing, but anyone can take a picture, right?”
Not really. There are photos — and then there are works of art.
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