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Photo-a-day: a digital photographic practice and its impact on wellbeing

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Photo-a-day: a digital photographic practice and its impact on wellbeing. / Cox, Andrew; Brewster, Liz.
In: Photographies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 02.2018, p. 113-129.

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Harvard

Cox, A & Brewster, L 2018, 'Photo-a-day: a digital photographic practice and its impact on wellbeing', Photographies, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 113-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2017.1399288

APA

Cox, A., & Brewster, L. (2018). Photo-a-day: a digital photographic practice and its impact on wellbeing. Photographies, 11(1), 113-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2017.1399288

Vancouver

Cox A, Brewster L. Photo-a-day: a digital photographic practice and its impact on wellbeing. Photographies. 2018 Feb;11(1):113-129. Epub 2018 Feb 23. doi: 10.1080/17540763.2017.1399288

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Cox, Andrew ; Brewster, Liz. / Photo-a-day : a digital photographic practice and its impact on wellbeing. In: Photographies. 2018 ; Vol. 11, No. 1. pp. 113-129.

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