Kasia
I moved to L.A. as soon as I graduated from high school when I was 17 to be an actress. Within the first three months, I had booked a role on one of the first network web series–The WB’s “Downer’s Grove”. I started doing standup comedy when I was 18, where I wrote and performed my own material and realized that I loved and felt very fulfilled by actually creating the content, as well as performing it. Read More>>
Stefania Rosini
I am from a very small town called Montepescali, Grosseto,Tuscany. I’ve loved photography since I was 8, when I saw my cousin at work, printing and cleaning some pictures. It was a magic moment that made something click inside me and tied me to the medium and the world that it can create. I got my first camera at 13, a Canon Junior. From that day on I‘ve used a lens to look at my family and my friends: it’s something between me and the world around but it helps me pay attention to things in a deeper way, you are involved in a scene but you are also a witness, you are part of the world but you are invisible too. Read More>>
Steven Baker
I started taking pictures back in 2005 when I enrolled in a black and white film photography course at a community college in the Bay Area. This did not begin my love for imagery but more stoked the flame that had been lit long ago when I was first introduced to cinema as a child. My interest in photojournalism soon led me to fall head over heels with fashion photography. Read More>>
Amy Graves
I started in photography when I was a kid. I had an interest in photography and would go out with my small camera and capture images of relatives, other kids in the neighborhood and my pets. At summer camp, one year, when I was about 12, I had a camp counselor, asked me what I liked to do and I said photography and he loaned me a camera where I was able to document various camp activities and the other kids at the camp that summer. Read More>>
Lizzy Land
I fell in love with photography nine years ago and haven’t put a camera down since. My parents got me my first DSLR one Christmas thinking it would be a waste of money but were pleasantly surprised when they noticed that all I wanted to do was take photos all the time. I have been taking numerous photo classes since high school and am still learning just what it is I want to do and want to shoot all the time but I have all the time in the world to keep on learning and shooting. Read More>>
Brian Ferrari
I’ve been behind a camera since I was 13 – always creating with it. It wasn’t until I was in college and started a small clothing business that I picked up my first DSLR and became our in-house photographer. Eventually, the business took me to Los Angeles where I really began to hone my skills and focus on creating still imagery. Read More>>
Chad Finley
I was always interested in the arts as a child. I played instruments, sketched, danced, etc. I knew there was passion there just not sure exactly which field. I went on to college and majored in Graphic Design. I ended up choosing Photographer as my minor, thinking it would be an easy “A”. Read More>>
Joseph Alexander
My creative process can be traced all the way back to high school, where I took my first 35mm photography class. After spending a couple of years in the dark room, I realized I wanted to take my passion of creating and turn it into a career. After high school, I went on to major in advertising and commercial photography. I spent a couple of years interning and assisting other photographers as well as working as an intern at a retouching and digital capture studio. Read More>>
Stephanie Ponce
I fell in love with photography in middle school. My family used to go out to Glamis to ride dirt bikes and the sunsets were just breathtaking! I would climb on top of our trailer every night to take a photo of them. Fast forward about 6 years and I was majoring in photography at California Baptist University. I worked my butt off and shot anything and everything I could to hone my craft. And every opportunity I had to shoot a wedding with a friend, I took it. Read More>>
Meredith Carlson
I picked up a camera when I was in high school, and from there moved to Chicago, New York, and then Los Angeles, where I currently reside. There’s something very tangible and exciting about creating a carbon copy of a moment that appeals to me. Scientists have discovered that the more you remember a moment, the more degraded it becomes over time. Photography, for me, is a way to hold on to those memories and express how they felt. Read More>>
Robbie Masterson
I always wanted a nice camera growing up, but I was intimidated to buy one. I always assumed that shooting photos manually was beyond by technical comprehension. I held off on anything serious awhile, shooting with a small point and shoot for years. Until about 4 years ago, I started my own business and justified the purchase of a “real” camera to shoot product and look books myself. Long story short, I was completely smitten with the camera, and after a little, over a year I closed up shop on the business and started shooting full time. Read More>>
Jeffery Andre
I began as a commercial print model, while in college pursuing a dual degree in marketing and art (painting), but was always fascinated by photography and the creative process behind fashion campaigns and editorials. Years later I decided to try my hand at photography, as I needed a creative outlet once I was done with school. Read More>>
Rob Berezowski
I grew up in a small town named Whitby, a 40-minute drive east of Toronto. I went to college and majored in Photography and graduated in ’99. I moved to New York City in 2002 and started photo assisting many photographers, building up a network of some amazingly creative people. Photo assisting took me to many interesting and often unseen or inaccessible locations around New York and the rest of the United States. Read More>>
Christophe McWhorter
I grew up in Bakersfield CA where a lot of art is not seen. so In High School, I decided to take art. My wonderful Art Teacher told me to start shooting with a camera, ever since then I’ve had this passion for photography. He taught me that Capturing people is what came to me naturally,so I would capture my friends, my grandmother’s chemo treatment, and myself. Read More>>
Nicole Toczauer
I fell in love with photography in high school. I’d drag my friends out for photoshoots every free moment I got. In college, I became more focused on technique. Manipulating light was my absolute favorite thing to do and I would spend hours in a studio. There came a period though when I didn’t touch a camera for a year or so. I felt creatively lost and exhausted. Read More>>
Samantha Fielding
I have always had a camera in my hand for as long as I can remember. My father bought me a camera when I was really young. It was almost as big as me back then. I started out assisting portrait and fashion photographers in London at the ripe old age of 15, I was hooked. I thought I wanted to be a National Geographic photographer for a couple of years and decided to backpack to 45 countries. Shooting along the way. Read More>>
Andie Mills
My father was a photography enthusiast, and he gave me my first camera when I was 10. We were moving to Europe and he thought I’d like to document our travels. I always enjoyed taking photos, but I didn’t consider it something I could do professionally until I was in college and I took my first darkroom class. Read More>>
Joshua Applegate
I picked up my first camera in the 90’s, called the Tyco Video Camera for kids from Toys R’ Us. https://youtu.be/lm4LiCdL1-k.I eventually bought myself an ‘adult’ video camera and began creating family videos from our family gatherings over the years. I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15 years old and continued my passion in video. Filming school shows, plays, dances, and gathering my friends to make music videos and shorts. Read More>>
Andrew Patterson
My current role is Director of Photography and Production at DLMUS, a creative agency representing some of the most stellar creatives, directors and photographers in Los Angeles and New York. This role has me wearing many hats, from media production, artist consultancy, brand partnership, endorsements, art gallery deals, celebrity negotiations to print digital tv commercial production and the burgeoning business of social media marketing. Previously my other credits include work for CBS, CW, Food Network, Fox, Star-Hub Asia, Foxtel, XYZ & the 7 Network Australia. Read More>>
Rosa Colapietro
I began my photographer career by shooting my own Jewelry product. I was designing my own Jewelry and I was doing my own advertising, I need it to have great pictures that represented my vision, I also had no money to hire anyone for photos. I began learning everything about photography, lighting etc. After a few months of that, my husband saw my pictures and he invited me to come shoot behind the scenes for some of his artists. Read More>>
Rebecca Gnasso
Well, I was always interested in photography but it really started around 2007-2008 where I started taking friends portraits for myspace and facebook haha. Because of that, though, I really got into it so I took a class in high school and really fell in love the camera. I took some classes at a community college then moved to LA to work on being a freelance portrait/fashion photographer. A lot of people I’ve meet/worked for really helped me where I am today. Also constantly shooting and working in the field and has helped tremendously. Read More>>
Beau Patrick Coulon
My story is a convoluted one but I’ll try to summarize as best I can. I grew up bouncing back and forth between my parents like a pinball. California, Florida, California, Oklahoma, California, Oklahoma, and on and on until I moved out on my own, to the streets of Hollywood, when I was 13. I lived in squats mostly, hitching and riding freight from city to city. In my 20s I spent more of my time living in hospitals, jails, and rehabs. Read More>>
Meg McMahon
I’ve been passionate about Fine Art since childhood. Museum trips were always top on my list when planning family vacations. I was originally inspired by my grandfather’s photos and slides but didn’t begin really experimenting with film until my teens. In my 20s, I decided to take things a step further and began my education at Brooks. Read More>>
Yasmine Kateb
I started out photographing comp cards for modeling and talent agencies in Texas. Later, I started getting bookings from California so I started traveling back and forth. Now I reside in Los Angeles photographing for multiple magazines, designer’s campaigns/lookbooks, and portraits for several artists, entertainers and models etc. I recently had my first solo fine arts photography exhibit “Motion in Still” at O gallery in Hollywood. Read More>>
Oleg Bogdan
I moved to LA 1.5 years ago from Ukraine to do some projects. In Ukraine, I was an Art director of 4th magazines. I started doing photography almost 11 years ago, I shoot all celebrities in Ukraine and Russia. I produced and directed around 5 music videos. Read More>>
Chris Ian Garlington
For many people, photography begins as a hobby that they may turn into a career. In my case, my first picture was published on the front page of The Times Herald, my local newspaper, when I was 14 years old. That was 23 years ago! When I saw my name under the photo and knew there was a check was on the way, it lit a fire within me that opened doors to an unlikely career. Read More>>
Catherine Ouellette
As a DJ, I produced remixes and wanted to promote my work visually. So, I purchased a Canon Mark 5D III to shoot music videos. I went off to the Bahamas with some friends and brought along my camera to snap my vacation. Soon enough, an acquaintance of mine whom happen to own a model agency saw my post on Instagram and asked me if I was interested in test shooting her models. From there on, I caught the bug not only as a Director but a Photographer as well. Read More>>
