Melissa
Portrait with Christopher Randall
Description: A young photographer smiles as she points her camera at a woman in a South Asian outfit. They are outdoors on the set of a photoshoot adjacent to the Taj Mahal mausoleum.
Portrait with Zachary Maxwell Stertz
“I'm a photographer. I started with film because I actually wrote a script and I had all the materials to do so. When I got to that last minute, you know when you get to open the door, the door never opens. So, I just felt like I went to the other door which was photography and I got more of a better feel for that because I like to create “memories in motion and motionless memories.”
“Memories in motion” is a video, the video that creates memory. “Motionless memories” is a still photo.
I felt photography was better for me because I like to capture stuff in a box. Even though you're sitting here in motion, I could still take the picture, and it will be very still. That's what made me happy about photography.
I'm very positive. Even in the most negative situations I’m very positive. I give very good advice to other people, but when it comes to myself, I just don't take it.
The name of my company is the “The Kino Image”. When you book “TKI”, you book amazement. A friend of mine had a dog named Kino, and Kino is German cinema.”
New York, 2017