Just a lot of my work, it's like a documentary, it just comes from shooting skateboarding
and my boardings being very spontaneous, very loose, it's almost like documenting a few
hours of a person's life.
When I was in high school we had a journalism program, not a photo program, but we had a
couple cameras to use and I kind of just took the class because I had friends that were
involved in skating and BMX and snowboarding at the time so we could just run up the cameras,
I don't leisure, and I would just take them out and shoot friends and then from there
I started working on a skate shop for about seven years so I was just surrounded by other
really talented athletes, snowboarders and skateboarders, it started to click and maybe
it's something I'd want to do and it started to get a little bit better and kind of have
a technique that came about and it just kind of went from there, but for the first few
years shooting I was just strictly doing like snowboarding and skating.
I learned entirely on film, and not going to school, I was literally just buying different
types of film, I didn't know a light meter, I was just kind of learning as I went, like
writing down exposures, getting film back that was completely useless, it got to a point
where I'm more comfortable with what I do so I'm able to get a lot of emotion out of
people I think sometimes and I guess I'm still a portrait photographer, a lot of my work
is portraiture but a lot of it's like, in the last few years my fashion books have gotten
a lot stronger.
I think a lot of the reason why I'm working more towards fashion now is because you kind
of have more control over the overall image, like what the person's wearing, what the person
looks like, the theme of the shoot, the overall structure of everything, you're not just
taking a photograph, you're working with a team of people to really create this illusion,
like really create something like, you know, the fantasy so people look at it and kind
of take some to a different place.
I feel like in a lot of my photos there's like a cinematic aspect to it, like the in-between
moments, like the person that I'm looking down or turning around or lighting a cigarette.
The best shots usually aren't the ones where I'm giving direction.
Progressing with friends is really important I think being loyal to people that have supported
you, you know, maybe you weren't doing as much, I think it's a really important thing.
I mean, working with Chris when they first started the company, it was years ago so neither
of us were, you know, we were both kind of trying to figure out what we were going to
do and we were both really scraping by and I think when you progress with friends and
you keep in touch with people that are doing creative things, nothing but good can come
out of it.
So yeah,沒有 I think I should have put some of the most effective stuff somewhere,
there's always room for use here in school.
I mean, a lot of the people in the building are cool.
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