Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever, whether it be a face or a flower, a place or a thing, a day or a moment. The camera is a perfect companion. It makes no demands, imposes no obligations. It becomes your notebook and your reference library, your microscope and your telescope. It sees what you are too lazy or too careless to notice, and it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
– Aaron Sussman
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., I always found myself visually attracted to what was around me. This interest was nurtured by my mother, and it’s because of her, that my love of photography began. From elementary school, when my mother gave me a 110-format camera, to picking up my father’s camera (an old school Canon AE-1), to getting my own camera, a Canon EOS Rebel, photography felt just right — like Goldilocks finding the right porridge, except my porridge it was an artform.
I continued this love of photography right through college, where, though photography was not my path, I still managed to force it into my journey in school. And that has continued on into the present, where I continue to chronicle what I see and show everyone. As for my tools, it’s all Canon, and some other brands of lenses that I can’t use (successfully) with the newer R series. Workflow is via Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. And super important: music, that I listen to while working.
– Roberto Carlos Samayoa
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