Fashion - Professional

Pretty Girls Can't Look Away

Lisa Powers
New Zealand

Nominee

"Pretty Girls Can't Look Away"
Inspired by the haunting lyrics of Blue Oyster Cult, I photographed the model posing in a mirror.

Biography: I was born in the south of France. My heritage is of French/Italian lineage. My family and I moved to New York when I was ten years old. I began learning photography when I quit my day-job in a small advertising agency for a job in a large commercial photo studio. My ambition was to become a professional freelance commercial photographer and I learned by watching the studio photographers shoot in the daytime, then shooting for myself with models at night. I learned more by artistic experimentation than technical correctness since I had no technical knowledge. This was in the film era,...

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