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Describe the moment or event that inspired your decision to become a photographer.

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Maybe it was the day my mother was astonished to find the black cat she photographed didn’t appear in her prints. Maybe it was the day I mistook my father’s print of an apple for a galaxy. Maybe it was the day he and I used the same equipment and photographed the same thing but made very different images. Maybe it was the day I watched Scitex machines adjusting images for Eliot Porter’s Intimate Landscapes book. Maybe it was the day that I got my first copy of Photoshop. But all these events only led to the real day, the day I completed a solid body of work that was truly mine. I had finally found what I was looking for.

I make images to express wonder and love for the world. The picture frame is a meeting place. Making images offers me a way to explore the natural world, my responses to it, and my community’s responses to it. The responses can be universal, cultural, personal or some combination of all three.

What was your moment? Share it in the comments.

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