A recent article in The New York Times on how our expanding “megacities” seem to have less and less need for small cities prompted a thoughtful analysis by the Times’ economics columnist Paul Krugman.
I have been doing photography practically all my life. I've studied about exposure, film developing and printing. I've worked with all sorts of photographic equipment from 8x10 view cameras to 35mm point-and-shoot automatic ones
Jackie Campbell was a prolific writer. She began her career with the Providence Journal in Rhode Island. When she and her husband moved the family to Denver because of his work in the oil shale business, she began looking to connect with other people who could possibly work with her doing feature writing. She found me!
For Alana Belle, making this particular film was a process of self-discovery and a completely unexpected adventure. Sometimes we find our greatest strengths while we are honing our talent and then we learn something new about ourselves that until then had been previously untapped. This is how the making of The New Romantic unfolded for Alana Belle.