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<h2>Contributors: Cate Cannavino | <a href="http://www.artsycouture.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artsy Couture</a> &amp; Ute-Christin Photography | Professional Photographer</h2>
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<p>In 1988, in a dark room located in a small Elementary School, in an even smaller town in East Germany, a love for photography was born.  Ute-Christin Photography didn&#8217;t have the most conventional start, but then again many of us don’t either.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e7f8f;"><strong>Cate:</strong> </span>How did you get started in photography?</p>
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<p><span style="color: #c4337c;"><strong>Ute</strong>: </span>In fifth grade, I started learning more about photography in school and took a liking to the process of developing photos in our little dark room in East Germany.  That interest continued to flourish as I got older. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artsycouture.com/blog/life-lessons-from-a-professional-photographer/" title="Permanent Link: Life Lessons from a Professional Photographer" rel="bookmark">Continue Reading</a></span></p>{"id":2919,"date":"2017-09-22T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.174.152.62\/blog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2017-09-22T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:08:55","slug":"life-lessons-from-a-professional-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/life-lessons-from-a-professional-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Lessons from a Professional Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2925\" src=\"https:\/\/54.174.152.62\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Untitled-design-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"Ute-Christin-Photography_3\" width=\"960\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/artsy-cdn\/static\/assets\/img\/wordpress-artifacts\/2017\/09\/22152300\/Untitled-design-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/artsy-cdn\/static\/assets\/img\/wordpress-artifacts\/2017\/09\/22152300\/Untitled-design-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/artsy-cdn\/static\/assets\/img\/wordpress-artifacts\/2017\/09\/22152300\/Untitled-design-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/artsy-cdn\/static\/assets\/img\/wordpress-artifacts\/2017\/09\/22152300\/Untitled-design.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Contributors: Cate Cannavino | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artsy Couture<\/a> &amp; Ute-Christin Photography | Professional Photographer<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1988, in a dark room located in a small Elementary School, in an even smaller town in East Germany, a love for photography was born. \u00a0Ute-Christin Photography didn&#8217;t have the most conventional start, but then again many of us don\u2019t either.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2e7f8f;\"><strong>Cate:<\/strong> <\/span>How did you get started in photography?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c4337c;\"><strong>Ute<\/strong>: <\/span>In fifth grade, I started learning more about photography in school and took a liking to the process of developing photos in our little dark room in East Germany. \u00a0That interest continued to flourish as I got older. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/life-lessons-from-a-professional-photographer\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Life Lessons from a Professional Photographer\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,43,42],"tags":[182,54,130,181,102,35,73,47,94,168,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsycouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}