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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A photographer from Kansas City keeps trying to capture the prairie life that first inspired her to take her camera to vantage points above ground.

Terry Evans, who's now based in Chicago, has her photography on display through June in an exhibit called "The Power of Place" at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KCUR-FM reported .

Evans never intended to become a landscape photographer, she said.

She was more motivated by portraits of people and their stories, beginning her career in Kansas City trying to understand with her camera what it meant to live in poverty.

"I...