#externs

Are you as comfortable in front of a camera as behind one? Being written about, as well as writing?

I’m trying to be.  I used to do a lot of photography and journalism work while I was at CIA.  My photography work stemmed from my Project 365 while dragging my camera around the place, and later it blossomed into something bigger when I asked if the school was hiring a photographer.  At the time, they were and I was in.  My pictures have been featured in the school’s website a couple of times as well as a couple of Mise En Place alumni magazines, so that’s definitely something to be proud of.

As for journalism, same thing.  I got to write a lot of interesting pieces, and some that I just was not quite into (sorry, Giuli and Jocelynn… don’t kill me.)  But when I have, it’s somewhat of a good feeling because some people read the paper and come up to me and talk about it.  I gotta go back to my scrapbook to see what I’ve written about though, it’s been quite a while.

Though being behind the scenes has always been fun for me, I’m constantly jealous of people I get to hang out, take pictures of, or write about.  To me, I see these people who grind and constantly make something out of themselves and in turn, they get rewarded with something amazing and they get written about, or get taken pictures of.  It’s kind of why I put my camera away for a while during this apprenticeship, and while I’m an avid social network user, I’ve put myself out a hell lot more these last three years in my apprenticeship in Colorado versus the three years that I was in New York, although it can be viewed as growth, or advertising myself in various ways.