Fashion Institute, Going back to school.

There are many people that believe I have no need for a further college education, personally, I cannot learn enough. My intention is not to learn photography, but to perfect my craft, make some new friends, network a little, and earn a degree. Photography may be a profession that you can enter based on talent alone and be successful, but if I am going to teach at a college level in 15 years I have to complete a degree. One of the two professors that interviewed me and reviewed my portfolio said I should just be downtown working, then left the interview to ask the assistant chair to the dept. if I could skip the first two years. (I did not prompt this action in any way.) Turns out it doesn’t matter how good you are, you must complete all four years.

Not to worry if you are a client or a potential client, with the knowledge base I already have, most of my work at FIT will be time I would be shooting for myself anyway, now someone will just be judging the work and adding a GPA to it. I am looking forward to the experience, I should have done it a decade ago.