“I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.”.
Brooklyn Beckham
What is it that pushes you into unknown universe of photography to face your imperfections and transcend into a better visionary? Some start to simply make a buck, some want to satisfy their inner voice. In this episode we asked 4 Professional Photographers about their reasons and motivations of profession pursuit.
The full interview is available of YOUTUBE. For your convenience, here is the transcript of it as well.
Molly Pan @mollypanphotography : I’ve always liked taking pictures of people. I’ve never really been into landscapes, or city scapes, or anything like that. I just think that we’re so interesting, and I’ve always felt that way. So when I got into acting, I was looking for a headshot photographer, and I was like, well, I could either spend $500 to get head shots, or I can spend $700 and get myself a kit, and do it myself.
I’m a super DIY, do it yourself kind of person, so that’s what I decided to do, and that was the beginning of this seven, eight, nine year long journey to where I am now.
Carlo Parducho @carloparducho : I first started working as a junior graphic designer right after college. My task was to Photoshop backgrounds of images, basically eight hours a day. So I was working with images all the time. On my down time, I just look at different kinds of pictures, because I like looking at pictures. It’s a progression, if you’re working with images, you like pictures, you’re looking for a way to increase, or to do more jobs, then you just pick up photography.
Karina Dobra @karinadobraphoto : I’ve been interested in photography since I was a little child, basically a little girl. I picked up a camera when I was eleven years old, it was my parents film camera, Olympus, and I was trying to do Rupertosh, like a story, dementiary story, about castles, about the castles. About a little town, a little medieval town.
Bekah Wriedt @bekahwriedt : I decided to do photography because it opened up a lot of doors for creativity and for relationships and I really value relationships and be able to create an art that connects with people.
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