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Under the ‘My heroes’ column on the He acquired his first camera – a model While ‘hanging out’ at his local camera
MySpace.com social networking site, that he assembled himself from a kit - shop he ran into Melvin Sokolsky, a
London-based fashion photographer when he was ten years old. leading fashion photographer of the
Gene Kiegel writes: “Anyone who
Sixties and Seventies. He managed to
does what they love without having a
He pestered his grandfather to teach talk him into browsing the decidedly
backup plan or doing something just
him rudimentary exposure calculation slender and still embryonic ‘Kiegel
for the money’.
skills as he began experimenting with portfolio’ - and then asked for an
black and white film. assistant’s job.
Kiegel (née Yevgenii Vladimirovich in
Sokolsky, a little bemused, said: “Why
1974; Odessa, Ukraine) has been
After a family move to LA in 1989, Kiegel would you want to do that? Assisting is
faithful to those values all his life.
studied computer science and only going to teach you to shoot like
architecture – but gave it all up for other people - and photography should
photography. be all about self-expression.”
From that moment Kiegel knew he was
going to have to do it the hard way.
He recalls: “I realised that I was in love
with photography. It had become a
passion and so I made a commitment to
pursue a career in this profession no
matter what it took.”
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