ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I’ve always photographed people, in part because I've been fascinated by faces since early childhood. I had an impulse to stare at people, which was discouraged for being impolite, so capturing a face photographically became my art.

AUTHOR
I was born in the south of France. My family and I moved to New York when I was ten years old.
I began learning photography when I quit my day-job as proof-reader in a small advertising agency for a job as the cleaner/janitor in a large commercial photo studio. My ambition was to become a professional freelance commercial photographer and I learned by watching the studio photographers shoot in the daytime, then shooting for myself with models at night. I learned more by artistic experimentation than technical correctness since I had no technical knowledge. This was in the film era, long before digital cameras.
For the next thirty years I was one of the few women working successfully in commercial photography, an industry which was/still is largely male-dominated.
In 2008I relocated with my four kitties from New York to New Zealand. I took my photography in a new direction: Fine Art.

"I don’t capture pictures, I create them from nothing in my studio… not as one would perceive them in reality but as imagined images. To do this, I build from an idea. Choosing the right model to direct is crucial. I am completely self-taught and perhaps because of that, I am fearless. I love mixing my analogue film images with digital effects." --Lisa Powers

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