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Honorable Mention
Title:2020-The Year of the Agoraphobic
2020 - The Year of the Agoraphobic. Definition: Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape might be difficult.
Biography:
I was born in the south of France. My heritage is of French/Italian lineage. My family and I moved to New York when I was ten years old.
I began learning photography when I quit my day-job in a small advertising agency for a job in a large commercial photo studio.
My ambition was to become a professional freelance commercial photographer and I learned by watching the studio photographers shoot in the daytime, then shooting for myself with models at night.
I learned more by artistic experimentation than technical correctness since I had no technical knowledge. This was in the film era,... |