“Gosh, my job is so easy! I just click a button all day… said no photographer ever.”
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Continuing inspirational series of survey episodes from photographers, and for photographers, we discuss further various reasons to become a photographer. If you are in need of little inspirational boost, or lack friends/family support to pursue photography – these episodes are for you! Cheer up, take a camera, let’s get creative!
The full interview is available of YOUTUBE. For your convenience, here is the transcript of it as well.
Chris Curiel @C_curiel87 : My friend, she had a homework assignment and she didn’t want to do it and she handed me her camera, and she just told me, “Here, go shoot it.” So I went around, shot it, I gave it back to her and her professor right away saw the difference, was like, “You didn’t shoot this. Who shot this?” And slowly, she did comment to me, and then they brought me in as … and he just told me, “You don’t mind taking the classes? You have something that a lotta students don’t have,” and then I was like, “Sure.” At that moment I dived in into photography not knowing what I was getting into.
Robert Tate @tate.foto : I actually used to … a related industry where I’m really into clothing. So I used to have a blog and I would copy and paste images on my blog, and I kinda got bored of that, so I decided to pick up a camera and shoot the images myself.
Paul Roustan @roustan : Body painting taught me that I kinda don’t really enjoy drawing or painting. When I was doing illustration and comic books I would actually draw. I wouldn’t like the process of drawing, I preferred the results, so I would suffer a little bit as I was drawing, laboring over the illustrations and when I got to the result, I didn’t always like it. Actually, most of the time I didn’t like it.
Ben Tsui @bentsuiphotos : Photography was an interest of mine in my 20s, but I’ve always liked art since I was a little kid. I’ve drawn, I’ve painted, but mostly I’ve always really love looking at all the fashion ads in magazines and campaigns. It really intrigued me on how they shot things with clothes and models and things like that, and when I had the chance I jumped right into it and I’ve been doing it ever since.
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