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Mandy Rosen<br />
Tell us who is Mandy?<br />
I am a 23 year old girl born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. Since the age of 14<br />
I have lived in Italy, Costa Rica, New York, and various cities in Arizona. I attended the University<br />
of Arizona and received my BA in art history. Last summer I lived in New York City<br />
working on set at Victoria’s Secret as an intern to fashion photographer Russell James.<br />
How did you first get into photography?<br />
I purchased my first camera, a FugiFilm finepix s700, at age 20 for $99.00. It was love at first<br />
sight. This was my first DSLR and allowed me to do things that I had never been able to do<br />
with a camera before, such as working with shutter speed and macro settings. I began taking<br />
my camera with me everywhere and would take pictures of any random thing that caught my<br />
eye: a crack in a window, a close-up of a spiderweb, the reflections in rain puddles, a beautiful<br />
landscape, you name it! After about a year of this random photojournalism, I discovered<br />
the world of fine art photography and began concentrating on that instead and creating selfportraits.<br />
What cameras or techniques do you use?<br />
Currently I use a Canon 5d mark ii with a 50 mm 1.4 lens.<br />
What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started?<br />
Definitely how to Photoshop!<br />
What are you trying to say with your photographs? I sense the message behind each of<br />
them...<br />
My passion is levitation and fine art photography. It’s a way for me to escape reality into an<br />
ethereal realm; where I can defy gravity, walk on water, play a different character, and make<br />
dreams come true. Anything I imagine I can create. As a young child, I was heavily influenced<br />
by my grandmother, a very talented storyteller who filled my cousins and I with the most<br />
vivid imaginations. In her stories my cousins and I were apart of the “cousin’s team;” where<br />
we embarked on wild adventures, used our magical powers to conquer evil, and transported<br />
ourselves to any part of the world through a magic bubble. Her stories serve as inspiration for<br />
my work, and allow me to exercise my creative freedom. Every image I create is dedicated to<br />
my beloved grandmother, who gave me the gift of dreaming.<br />
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