VO: What is it like during photo
shoots?
Greggory: Alen will be shooting
and then I’ll be directing the
models. Sometimes I will
pantomime what we want them to
do. Then she will hand the photo
to me and I will look at it as either
marketable or the right head shot.
We are never stepping on each
other’s toes.
VO: How did you come across
your loft?
Alen: We had always been looking
for a loft with natural light and we
saw this one online.
Greggory: One day I was looking
on craigslist and I saw the building.
We made an appointment and as
soon as we walked in the door
we knew immediately and wrote a
deposit check.
VO: Alen, where did you get your
start?
Alen: I had always been taking
pictures but professionally, when
I started studying photography I
realized right away I had to shoot
people. Through school we had
contacts with fashion agencies
and they allowed the students to
use their models and the agencies
started loving the work I produced.
Soon after, I started submitting to
get published and then Greggory
said we could tell a story with that.
Greggory would do the writing
and we started submitting to
magazines and they began to ask
for more.
Greggory: She was also studying
Journalism, clicking the camera
with a journalistic eye.
Greggory began helping me in the process.
I was only shooting and there was a lot of
materials coming in for editing.
Greggory: From the beginning, it was kind
of natural. I come from that artistic side
just never behind the camera. I had never
been interesting in clicking the shutter but
the editing process and marketing side is
really what I love. So from the beginning
we just fit together. From the beginning,
we weren’t doing the same thing. We were
complimenting each other.
VO: How would you describe your
photography? Not the magazine
photos but your collection of
photos?
Alen: I think it has a lot of
elements from my childhood. I feel
like photography is a self-portrait
at the end of everything and
sometimes my subjects will have
an expression I would make as a
child. My photography is sincere
and genuine.
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