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After completing school in Santa Barbara, I headed up to San Francisco. Starting my first job, in a still life studio, which extended my technical base that I had learned at university.

People, had always been my biggest fear, I based my whole school curriculum around not having to take portraiture class. Once comfortable with a person it was OK, but going up and asking a stranger a question, much less asking to take a picture was death to me.

Somehow my time in San Francisco changed all  that, I wanted to conquer my fear, I wanted to become a fashion photographer.  With that in mind I knew I had to move to the fashion photo capital of the world, New York City. 

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