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Chase Jarvis Interview

Chase, could you tell us a bit about yourself? A biography? As in how you became a photographer, and what made you choose this direction? 
I went to school and was interested in a lot of things, mainly creative, but I felt a lot of pressure from myself and my family to do something respectable like medical school. At the last second I ducked out and studied philosophy of art and specifically the philosophy of photography. And fortunately pulled out of that as well.

I was always taking pictures in the background and I grew up playing a lot of sports and went to college on a soccer scholarship. There were a lot of cameras around and my dad was a hobbyist and I remember I was acutely tuned in to the capturing of these moments, reliving the moments through the pictures.

My grandfather died when I was in college and I was given his camera equipment (autofocus Minolta). Like a lot of younger people I ran off to Europe for 6 or 7 months and took a lot of pictures and knew it was going to be part of my life moving forward. When I came back, I jumped back into school and I waited for my dream career to hit me over the head. Upon quitting my second graduate school, I dove straight into becoming a self-taught professional photographer by reading magazines, browsing websites, and using library resources which eventually led to real assignments.

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