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<span class="text"><font color="#ffffff" class="text"> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="text-decoration: underline">BIO</span> </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"> </p> <p> Hello,</p> <p> </p> <p>My name is Efren Herrera, I am an L.A. based photographer, and I'd like to share some of the more notable mile markers from my unlikely road to photography.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>1962</u></p> <p>Born in El Paso TX to a Mr & Mrs Herrera and raised across the border in Mexico in a beautiful town called Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>Education</u></p> <p>An early interest in Medicine and Pre-Med led somehow to Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso. And ultimately to a formal education as a classically trained Sound and Recording Engineer in the State of California.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>Josephine</u></p> <p>All along I had a wonderful grandmother that loved photography and world travel, unfortunately I would inherit not only her love of photography but also her lack of talent, and soon began cutting off people's heads in my own pictures.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>2002</u></p> <p>After a dream trip to Paris and the south of France, twenty or so rolls of film, and not one decent shot in the bunch, I decide to enroll in a photography class at a local community college and investigate this frustrating lack of talent.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>2003</u></p> <p>Tried my hand at Landscape and Travel photography and often became very frustrated trying to get places at the perfect time of day in search for that elusive "golden time"</p> <p> </p> <p><u>2004</u></p> <p>I will never go digital!</p> <p> </p> <p><u>2004 Cont.</u></p> <p>Went all digital.</p> <p> </p> <p>Workshops and help sessions with people like Craig Wolf, Don Gale, David Mecey and Robert Farber, introduced me to the wonderful world of strobe lighting and an ever-present "perfect" light, as well as a complete fascination with the female form and the ongoing hunt for the perfect shadow.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: medium"><u>STATEMENT</u></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"> </p> <p style="text-align: left">A frustrated Digital Designer inspired by the artwork in Frank Miller's illustrated "Sin City" novels. After trying unsuccessfully to imitate his drawing style, I found that all the how-to books weren't helping, so as a shortcut I tried to find photographs that I could scan and "transform" in Photoshop, when those weren't available, I set out to take my own. Next thing you know 4 years have gone by and the desire to search for the perfect line,curve and shadow is stronger than ever</p> <p style="text-align: left"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p></font></span><br> <h1> </h1>
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