PicsArt Monthly PicsArt Monthly Magazine December Issue 2014 | Page 90

You’re shooting at such a high level, that it is easy to forget you are just 24 years old. To what do you attribute your early success? When I was around 16 years old and just getting into photography, a family member gave me a book on the basics. I read it front to back probably 6 times in a week span. I think having both an appreciation for the technicality as well as the aesthetics really pushed me to want to photograph. This might not be the same for every photographer, but I truly loved learning how a camera functioned. So at a young age, I had for the most part learned a great deal about how to properly take a photograph, which allowed me to then focus on concepts and all the visual aspects later on. 90 | PicsArt Monthly