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84 MFM: At what age did you start photography?HG: I was interested in photography as early as grade school and even took a photography class in high school! Back then we learned how to use the black room to develop black and white film, and all cameras were film, lol. However, I didn%u2019t actively pursue photography until after I decided I could not model.MFM: What made you fall in love with photography?HG: I think I fell in love with photography because it was a way to capture the beauty in the things and the people that I saw around me. I love to draw, but I wasn%u2019t that great at it and certainly wasn%u2019t good looking enough to model so I decided to try my hand at using a camera.MFM: Are you a self-taught photographer or attend school?HG: I am primarily self-taught. I say primarily because I never took classes, but because I wanted to do photography, and because the opportunity for a career change presented itself at a time when I was looking for change. I took a job at Lifetouch: a school portraits company based in Minneapolis MN where I grew up. There we had very basic training at lighting and framing portraits, how to thread those large cameras, and I got my first taste of lugging around all that gear we needed to do our job! In hindsight, I probably learned the most from Robert John Gutke who was the first photographer that took an interest in photographing my brother and me as models.By: Darcy Tharp