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Shooting People | WN 2013 NatGeoScholarship | Jason Edwards

Worldwide | Friday, July 5, 2013 | 5 photos

Shooting People: Like many, I was captivated from an early age by photographs
from National Geographic. I would get lost in the world of images as I was taken away to somewhere distant, strange, beautiful. I saved up for my first camera in college, where I was studying the mind and its relationship with language and how it distorts and recreates the outside (actual) world, in much the same way a
photograph does.
I spent most of my early twenties trying to "beat the system," e.g living in artist squats, co-ops, spreading public art through performance and dissonance, attempting to change the world, until I changed myself.
What I love about a photo is that it can immortalize a fraction
of a second -a simple moment of pure emotion and communicate it.
I'm applying for the unique opportunity to work and learn from a real professional. I want to know what Jason does outside the frame and I want to learn how to do that to improve my photography.
Winning this scholarship would challenge me to take the next step, to demonstrate that I have the talent and work ethic to be a true professional photographer and capable of executing any assignment.