TVMEGASITE.COM Interviews Parker Stevenson

How and when did you get started as a photographer?

P. Stevenson: I started as young as I could hold up a Kodak Brownie, probably 5 or 6 years old, and ran around shooting everything.  No one was safe, not even my sister, the pets, or the neighbors. By age 14, I was shooting weddings– although, in hindsight, it probably wasn’t such a good idea entrusting someone that young to document those kind of important life moments.

Was there any link between that and your acting career?

P. Stevenson: I grew up in the suburbs outside of New York City and began acting  because it was a way to find some independence, taking all the trips into the city for auditions. What I discovered in the process was the advertising world, not only all the billboard images that flashed by on the train station platforms as I went by, but also the ad agencies themselves. It was a chance to peek into the real life world of “Mad Men”, and I was fascinated by how images could move us, whether to yearn for a product or to see something we’d never seen before.

 

(Parker Stevenson)

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