"Driving across the United States has provided me with a taste of how vast the world is, and with each new experience my thirst to explore deepens."
"My great grandparents opened a camera store when they moved to Los Angeles from Belgium, after escaping a concentration camp during WWII."
"I believe that being surrounded by images and the smell of darkroom chemicals before I even knew what they were set off some urge within me."
"I had horrible food poisoning on my twelfth birthday which fell on Thanksgiving, and spent most of the day hunched over a green toilet."
Sophie Altemus, a photographer from Los Angeles studying at Oberlin College, won the Student category in the fourth annual Photo Awards. She is known for her snapshot photography style and carries her camera everywhere. Her life experiences, including driving across the U.S., her family's history with a camera store, and a memorable birthday, have shaped her artistic perspective. The awards were supported by Format, an online portfolio builder for photographers and artists, offering customizable website templates.
Read at BOOOOOOOM!
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]