We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Tracy Bosworth Page. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Tracy below.

Tracy, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

I think I am truly embarked on what could be the most meaningful project of my career. During the last decade, I think we’ve all watched society’s ability to hate not just grow, but come out from the shadows and be present in everyday life. Hate seemed to be buried under a certain societal politeness for the last few decades, we were easily able to admit to ourselves that it didn’t really exist any longer because we didn’t seem to see it/feel it. It wasn’t in our faces. Now it is. It is pervasive. It is present. It is unavoidable. And it is targeted.

My thoughts have turned to how do I disarm hate? I have long believed that it is born out of fear and ignorance. As I started to break down how I can affect change, I realized the best tool I have to do this with is my unique perspective. I have an ability to capture personality on camera and my concept is to take what I do best and use it to introduce things about people that are common and familiar. The things about ourselves that are relatable instead of strange and foreign.

My passion for this has turned to photographing the generation of immigrants who moved to this country and started or relocated their families here. The patriarchs and matriarchs who gambled on this country and became citizens, raising citizens, participating in the fabric of who we are as a country. I don’t want to show these faces in the environment that might explain their passed cultural identity or stories of heritage, I want to show these faces in a common environment that links us to them. I want the point of this project to show the faces in a way we can all relate and realize how much more we have in common as humans than not. I want people to look at these faces and think that they can see their grandmother’s sternness or their grandfather’s humor.

I know realistically that what I can do is small, but if I reach one person by giving them a face they can relate to and be endeared to, then what I accomplish will be greater. Greater than not have done anything to reach out across our common sea of humanity.

Special thank you to my partners as I grow this concept. Denny’s Manufacturing for custom painting a small and portable but perfect canvas background. And to Zeiss Camera Lenses and Miller’s Professional Imaging for supporting and encouraging this project.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am a portrait photographer. I work primarily with actors doing headshots, lifestyle portraits and publicity portraits but I also work with magazines on editorial content and do commercial portraits and headshots. My brand is faces, I love photographing and capturing faces. It is both my passion and what I am good at.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

For certain, the most rewarding aspect of being an artist or creative, for me, is touching people. When clients, friends, fans of my work reach out to me and tell me they are moved by my work — that is the ultimate success for me. It drives me and keeps me going.

What a powerful thing to be able to move people. I am so thankful for this gift.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

The answer to what is the particular goal or mission driving my creative journey is as simple as it is complicated. I want to be better than yesterday. I want the next photograph to be better than the last. In that pursuit, I am constantly exploring ideas, methods, tools. I am a constant student of what photographers have done who have been before me, always looking to see what I might implement, what might inspire, what might make me better or what maybe I’ve missed.

I also have to nod to this incredible group of mentors, friends and suppliers. I have this very wide circle of people who support me whether it is talking through an idea, volunteering to be in front of my camera, creating these wonderful elaborate costumes that are inspirational and giving me the tools to create. I would not be able to achieve what I do without my village. With the access that I have, not creating would be a waste of all of the time and talent of the people who support me.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://www.tracybosworthpage.com
• Instagram: @tracybosworthpage
• Facebook: @tracybosworthpage
• Linkedin: @tracybosworthpage
• Twitter: @tracybospage
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8VtvlWsZX4&t=77s