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What are your aspirations for your career?
I have several aspirations; the first of them being to create the next great
piece of art. I like knowing that after I’m gone my photographs will,
hopefully, live on. I want to have my own gallery and to win a big award
for my movie making. It doesn’t have to be an Academy Award, but that
would be nice. To be featured on a billboard and a full-page spread in an
international magazine are also high on my list. Other than that I just want
to work and create. If I can have a 20-year career, I’d be satisfied.
Were you ever discouraged in the past from pursuing photography
and how did you overcome it to become what you are today?
I get discouraged all the time, but I think it’s a part of growing as an artist.
You can’t get better if you don’t fall on your face once in a while. How do
I overcome it? The next photo shoot or the next movie shoot. It’s my next
chance to create an amazing piece of art because the next shoot could be
my best. If you don’t take the chance to create that next piece of art then
what’s the point? You can’t do this to please other people. You have to do
this because of that burn that comes from inside. I’ve worked my cameras
to death. So far, I have taken over two million photographs in five years and
have about 100 photographs that are portfolio worthy.
If you could have any career with your artistic skills, what would
you be doing and why?
I already have it. I wake up each day and have the chance to create something
with my skills. My camera follows me everywhere. I’m a photographer and a
movie maker. That’s basically all I can ask for.
Sum up in one to a few words the way shooting a new piece makes you feel.
Satisfied and Excited.
“ Jesse Adair
has been able to use his
photographic skills,
while sharpening
and expanding them
with new tricks, techniques,
and skill sets.”
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