Fatima
Portrait with Andrew Eccles
Description: A woman looks downward with a slight smile on her face. She has voluminous, naturally, curly hair and a fresh face of makeup. She wears a black sweatshirt and is in front of a white wall with handwritten print.
Portrait with Zachary Maxwell Stertz
“I wrote myself a letter for 10 years in the future and it basically says “I hope you’re happy.” I would describe myself as sarcastic, mostly.
My strengths are that I’m a good listener, I'd say, and I can be very objective.
Moving to New York is the number one thing I’m proud of. It was difficult to get out here, because I’m from California originally.
I was always into reading books when I was a kid. I like that with writing, you are creating a whole other world and getting to control it, because the reader gets to decide how things end up. You get to decide how the characters look like, how they talk like, or what the setting is.
I read a lot of Harry Potter when I was a kid, but I read the Alchemist and that was a really big deal.
I see myself doing investigative journalism. Finding a story. And if I could cover any story, The fall of the Trump administration, hopefully; or anything no one knows is happening, because there's always something we don’t know is happening.”
New York, 2017