“For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner life of my subject and then it is giving them their idealized version of themselves.” GivingArtistGoalSubjectsVersionsComponentsInner LifePicture Taking Author:Carol Friedman
“I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you are mentored it inspires a generosity in you to mentor others and that I know is what happened with me, so for instance, the people that come through my studio to work for me, it's not good enough for me to just give them a paycheck.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingEnoughHappenedInspireEssentialsStudiosInstanceGenerosityGood EnoughMentorBeing MeNot Good EnoughMentoringPaychecks Author:Carol Friedman
“Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part of the fun of what I do, and I actually approached Al Sharpton. They didn't come to me.” GivingFunStyleVersionsAls Author:Carol Friedman