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Featured New Artist: Ryan Heffernan
“From wooden bike races in Rwanda, kids and puppets in Cairo, and vineyard workers in Napa, my work to date centers around people and their lives.” - Ryan Heffernan.
Ryan graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where he studied Spanish and Studio Art. He now splits his time between Santa Fe and San Francisco. Ryan’s father is a commercial photographer which exposed Ryan to the world of photography at an early age. Ryan explains his evolution toward photography, “While my initial interest in art was drawing, by the end of high school I found my self behind the camera quite often. The transition from drawing to photography coincided with a number of travel experiences abroad that were visually and creatively inspiring. The human interaction and experience on these trips and later in my professional life has always been my biggest draw to photography.”
Now working with a variety of clients, Ryan’s specialties are developing into, as he says “photographing people in their environments for both editorial and corporate clients. From wooden bike races in Rwanda, kids and puppets in Cairo, and vineyard workers in Napa, my work to date centers around people and their lives.” More importantly his style is, as he puts it, “constantly evolving with new projects, although it almost always includes the human element.”
The images in the slideshow are from two projects. One is from a shoot for the Sesame Workshop’s Annual Report. Ryan explains “Our goal was capture the joy and spirit that Sesame brings children throughout the world via its domestic and international productions. We shot in 5 countries over the course of 4 months.” The second is a group of images that were taken for Outside Magazine about a wooden bike race in Rwanda. “It was an incredible opportunity to photograph the annual race put on by the NGO, Project Rwanda, which is an organization that helps coffee farmers buy new bikes to transport the coffee cherries during harvest.”
Ryan Heffernan is this week’s Featured New Artist from our friends at Aurora Photos. Aurora’s staff regularly seeks out new, up and coming photographers to highlight on abouttheimage.com. We hope our readers will enjoy learning about these young pro-photographers and seeing examples of their outstanding work. Photographers who would like to be considered for publication as a Featured New Artist can submit their resume and portfolio by email to fna [at] abouttheimage.com.
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