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INK MAG: Tell us how you came to be a photographer.
CATITUDE: Photography saved my life. At 11 someone tried to throw me off a roof but I fought for my life and I got away. I would not go outside afterward. My godfather came over one day and handed me a camera and said “you can’t become a female Gordon Parks hiding in your room. No one will ever touch you again I got your six.
We went out a few days later and you couldn’t tell me I wasn’t clicking like Mr. Parks. Got back to my godfather’s place and he had a dark room. He developed my negatives looked at them and threw them in the garbage. I was crushed. He handed me another roll of film which was only 12 exposures and he said, “now, let’s go out again this time capture what you see.”
INK MAG: What new skills did you have to acquire for your business?
CATITUDE: Photography has changed since 1971 when I used film, a darkroom, and chemicals to develop my images. Now everything is digital, so I enrolled in a class because I was lost with all this new terminology. Snapping the button or composing the pictures was the least of my problem. The confusion began when I sent a photo to a magazine and was told the resolution was too low for the picture to be used and they needed it for the cover.
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