It wasn't just the camera right it was the story behind it it was the fuck you
to the industry it was the fuck you to the gatekeepers and that's when that fire
started coming back into my belly because I had lost that fire man lost it
when I saw what could be that completely uprooted everything you know at
that point I quit my job sold my house liquidated all my savings and dove in
Royal Galactic Media by design we are a small company there's three partners and
we specialize in corporate documentaries early on we made the
decision that it was just going to be the three of us you know we decided to
keep leaning in me and that the reason we could do that quite frankly was
because of the red and I've been on the other side of it you know sitting in a
cubicle and you know driving to meetings with a tire on my neck that's a whole
world I just don't want to have involvement in it anymore
and so going out to film and to take photographs and portraits of these
guys and women they're doing kind of this work that no one really knows about
that's something I've always wanted to do it's allowed me to discover things you
know it's allowed me to see things that I otherwise wouldn't have seen it's
giving me a different perspective on a lot of things
people overthink the creative process if you just kind of go with your gut I
think that's creative in itself someone interesting walks by and there's
something about them that I lock in on I want to capture that moment
it's allowed me to really recognize people not only as individuals but
collectively we're all the same really with the same alien on this planet trying
to figure shit out and everyone's trying to figure out their own way it's a
very short existence we all know it's a short existence but in saying that it
is a really beautiful existence I think we're all trying to make our mark right
that's what you should be doing I mean it's why you were put here my name is
Ivan aggerton and I'm a motion and stills photographer and I'm one of three
partners with Royal Galactic Media
that's the one that's the one thing I think I'm good at I'm very good at
anything else really but I can I can take a picture
