{"id":226,"date":"2020-05-02T04:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?p=226"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:54:05","slug":"conversations-with-the-contributors-wes-guerrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/2020\/05\/02\/conversations-with-the-contributors-wes-guerrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations with the Contributors: Wes Guerrier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Details” by Wes Guerrier<\/p><\/div>\n

Photographer Wes Guerrier happened upon Welter<\/em> as if by fate. Here, he talks about how he fell in love with photography and how he happened upon one of his favorite-ever shots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I understand that you came to <\/b>Welter<\/i><\/b> in an interesting way. Can you tell me about that?
\n<\/b>Absolutely. I invested in Lyft, and a client of mine [Welter<\/em> poetry editor Emely Rodriguez]\u00a0 happened to be a creative person. We got to talking about what she was doing, and she shared with me [that] she’s on this committee involved with this magazine publication. That was fascinating. I never would have imagined that I was connected to someone in the car like that. I’m really grateful for the opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you become interested in portrait photography?<\/b>
\n<\/span>A friend of mine has his own studio in Silver Spring [Maryland]. He knew that I had done some volunteer work as a videographer in my church days, and he asked me to work on some projects. When I got there, he allowed me to borrow his wife’s DSLR camera. He had an expensive camera. I had never worked with the DSLR camera, but to make a long story short, he had me doing all the creative angles while he was on the tripod. That evening, it was like a light bulb hit my head. Out of all the things that I\u2019ve done in life, for some reason at that moment, I knew it was something I was truly passionate about. It was a drive. I was like, \u2018Oh my God, now I have to get a camera.\u2019 And that was it. That’s how it all started. It\u2019s been an amazing journey ever since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Can you share the story behind the photo appearing in this issue of <\/b>Welter<\/i><\/b>, called <\/b>Details<\/i><\/b>?
\n<\/b>As a matter of fact, I was attending a workshop at the Michael Louis Photography Studio in Severn, Maryland. It was a structured program where they assigned each photographer a position number and based on that position, you have <\/span>X<\/span><\/i> number of minutes to work with the model to shoot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The model was MyrrhMade Queen–that\u2019s what she named herself. She\u2019s a talented artist and does body paint, that type of thing. It was her first workshop where she was being featured as a model. This was my test shot. I had seven or eight minutes with her, but based on the settings and the lighting and her makeup and everything, [the first shot] just came out so amazing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography is about capturing the energy of the moment. I believe that one moment in time is something that can never be duplicated. That’s what drives me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wonderful. Thanks for submitting to <\/b>Welter<\/i><\/b>!
\n<\/b>I\u2019m honored.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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