Karen collins photographer biography

Pucci, Gucci, Ungaro and Numero. Italian Vogue, Japanese Vogue, Pop, and many high-end retailers and brands, Not a bad calling cards for a photographer who ignored the traditional paths to success, those being, going to photography school, getting a job as someone’s assistant, and being a man.

Karen Collins.

Born and bred in Brisbane, I have also lived in London, Sydney and Melbourne.

Biography.

After graduating from art school, I spent four years designing and directing shoots for Conran Design, Habitat and Habitat France while beginning.

Expertise.

Karen Collins took a different route, and buoyed by a supportive and connected partner and a bit of luck, has developed a career that any fledgling shutterbug would envy.

A New Yorker who once lived in San Francisco, Collins instruction in photography came from working in a color lab where photographers still used film, thus she learned the intricacies of light, color and processes.

Encouraged by her boyfriend she bought a Sinar large format camera and started doing model test shoots in her apartment. When her boyfriend, Ucef Hanjani, redesigned SOMA and became its creative director, Collins, along with a handful of other young photographers, was given her first opportunity to shoot for a