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Ian Bates is a photographic artist based in the Bay Area. His photographs look at his curiosities of contradictions in human nature around the United States and how people interact with the environments they inhabit.

His clients include A+E Networks, VRBO, The New York Times Magazine, California Sunday Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, WIRED, Lufthansa Magazine, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, The University of Washington and others.