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Michael Potts united states
Photo © Michael Potts
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Saturday Afternoon
He currently works as a nuclear medicine technologist mainly so he has someone to talk to. This lets him photograph on the side without having to live on ramen and sleep on friends’ couches. The rest of his time is devoted to various cats. They don’t like ramen, but they do like couches.
Mike was baptized in 2019 and wonders if he still has that “new soul” smell. His ultimate dream would be to visit Mars (and ideally make the trip back too). In the meantime he keeps making pictures. Children are his favorite subjects because he doesn’t have to direct them, they haven’t had the creativity stomped out of them, and they don’t have phones so they can’t ask him if the pictures are ready yet.
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I was taught from the beginning that if you want good pictures it's not about the camera or the lens, but about the relationship with the person you're photographing. I get the best results with children because generally, once you earn their trust with positive attention, they don't have any boundaries and will gladly give freely of themselves. Let them run wild and they will show you an image better than anything you could have contrived.about the photographer
Mike grew up in Pennsylvania and in 2005 moved to Arizona where he’s rarely cold and doesn’t have to shovel snow. He graduated from Bucknell University with a major in English and a minor in Chemistry and still wonders what to do with them.He currently works as a nuclear medicine technologist mainly so he has someone to talk to. This lets him photograph on the side without having to live on ramen and sleep on friends’ couches. The rest of his time is devoted to various cats. They don’t like ramen, but they do like couches.
Mike was baptized in 2019 and wonders if he still has that “new soul” smell. His ultimate dream would be to visit Mars (and ideally make the trip back too). In the meantime he keeps making pictures. Children are his favorite subjects because he doesn’t have to direct them, they haven’t had the creativity stomped out of them, and they don’t have phones so they can’t ask him if the pictures are ready yet.
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