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Did you always know you wanted to be a creative and a photographer?

LOGAN: I’ve never thought of being anything else outside of an artist. Specifically photography found me I think around when I was 13, then I began to focus on documentary photography in the middle of my high school years and it stuck with me. I started considering the idea of filmmaking in 2017 but didn’t really dive into it until 2019. Even though I haven’t made any intentional still images for the past couple of years, I still think the photographs work within the film process. I do plan on picking back up the medium format though. I miss it.

Did you always know you wanted to be a creative and a photographer?

SYMONE: I wouldn’t say I’ve always known I would be a creative, but I did grow up in a large family with artists and musicians. I found expression through drawing and art as a child, but at that time, was interested in becoming a chef or a lawyer. I
started to become more serious about art around middle school when I began taking advanced level studio art courses. My interest in photography sparked around the end of my freshman year of high school and has since become the avenue for how I interact with the world.

Did you always know you wanted to be a creative and a photographer?

NICK: I’ve always been involved with creative expression in different ways, but I didn’t pick up a camera until I was maybe 17. I used to draw constantly as a young kid, and I was a poet before I was anything else seriously. I’ve always had a desire to express myself creatively and I was recognized for my ability from an early age, which probably helped it stick. It wasn’t until the height of tumblr, when I could see so many images constantly and be introduced to so many of the photographers that were my first inspirations, that I realized how much I loved photographs. I wanted to be able to be in dialogue with the things that I was seeing, and that meant speaking the same language.

Did you always know you wanted to be a creative and a photographer?
SHAE: Photographer? No. A creative? Yes. I always knew I was going to do something creative, I just didn’t know what. When I was younger I wanted to be a writer, but more like a creative writer. As I got older, my passion for writing was still there, but it shifted once I went to college. I learned about journalism and I started writing for my blog and all of that. My writing turned into more of a journalistic thing. In the midst of that, I needed a camera actually, because I needed to take pictures for my articles and stuff. And I just started taking my camera out every day and practicing. I just started shooting different things. At first I was just shooting, like going to different events and shooting stuff. I’ll put the photos on Instagram and tag whatever event it was. And then people started to hire me from doing that. So I just kept going and practicing. I always knew I had a very creative background and mind, but I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do.