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Photo Profile – Tony Francesconi

Continuing with our series of up-and-coming Photographers that are destined to make a unique mark with their work, we preset Tony Francesconi and his unique mix of environmental, portraiture, and action photography. I’ve personally known Tony for quite some time, and he has an eye for capturing both composition and emotion – and it’s the blending [...]

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Photo Profile – Mike Rusczyk

As a young punk kid, I spent every waking hour on a skateboard. There are a lot of memories from my youth, but being on a skateboard, raising hell, and having fun with my core group of friends was all that mattered. Fast forward 20 years, and I’m still on a skateboard, but not as much [...]

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Photo Profile – Tobin Yelland

All photos © Tobin Yelland Photography You started out shooting professionally at a very early age. How did this come about? I took a photography class  when I was 14 and had just started skateboarding as well. Skateboarding was pretty dead at the time, if I remember correctly, and there were unlimited possibilities to make photographs and [...]

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Photo Profile – John-Paul Pietrus

All photos © John-Paul Pietrus How did you get started? I studied fine arts at the Minneaoplis College of Art and Design, with an emphasis on photography. The course was very theoretically oriented, so we worked a lot on the mind and on creativity in addition to achievement of a thorough technical education. After graduation, I moved [...]

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Painting with the Sun – Masters of Natural Lighting – Beth Jansen

Back in June, we sent out requests to select photographers to be part of a new series on X-equals regarding the use of natural lighting in their work. We specifically asked them: How you approach using natural light The challenges you face when working with natural light Special tips and tricks you can share for getting great images using [...]

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Painting with the Sun – Masters of Natural Lighting – Michelle Moore

Back in June, we sent out requests to select photographers to be part of a new series on X-equals regarding the use of natural lighting in their work. We specifically asked them: How you approach using natural light The challenges you face when working with natural light Special tips and tricks you can share for getting great images using [...]

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Photo Profile – Joshua Carroll

All photos © Joshua Carroll How did you get started? I took a surprisingly normal route into the whole photography business. I started at the age of about 17, studied it in school, hated Biology and Chemistry and despised Business Studies (despite being rather good at all of them). So naturally I went to an arts college. [...]

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Photo Profile – Beth Jansen

All photos © Beth Jansen How did you get started? Like most female children’s photographers, I got my start once I had my first child.  After multiple disappointments in studio I was inspired to get images of him that I loved taken by someone that loved him.  When a friend gave me his old SLR film camera [...]

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Photo Profile – Michelle Moore

All photos © Michelle Moore How did you get started? I had an interest in photography in high school, especially my senior year when I took my first B&W darkroom class.  It was love at first sight as I watched my image develop on a piece of 8×10 Ilford paper.  When I got to college I took [...]

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Photo Profile – Tom Hoops

All photos © Tom Hoops Photography Happy accidents seem to be happening to me a lot lately. While cruising Twitter with absolutely no goal in mind, I ran across a mention of Tom Hoops website. After viewing maybe 2 or 3 of his shots from his Heads series, I immediately tracked him down to participate in a [...]

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