LIBBY LEWIS
I had an amazing junior year in college in Nepal and when I got back everyone said my photos were really nice. So I took a course in photography, switched majors and never looked back. I graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Smith College in Northampton MA. And then I moved to New York City and worked for a wedding photographer. But New York is big--really big for a girl from South Dakota.
So I moved to Seattle and got a job at a local portrait studio. And I loved it. I learned to pose babies and large families and high school kids and business people. And I learned about cameras and lighting. And I learned to put these things together so that I didn’t have to think about the technical stuff but could instead work to put people at ease so that we could make some beautiful portraits.
But then I thought it would be more fun to work for myself, to take the kind of fun and quirky photos that I want, to document people in places that are meaningful to them, to engage with my subjects in a deeper way to create images that conjure up specific moments in their lives...and you know what? It is more fun!