We were lucky to catch up with Chad Henry recently and have shared our conversation below.
Chad, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today. What do you think matters most in terms of achieving success?
What I Believe what it takes to be successful is giving oneself that mindset that you are going to be successful. Success is not easy it never was if it was meant to be that easy the word success won’t have a powerful meaning behind it, It takes patience, consistency, hard work, and you have to sacrifice things you don’t want to give up on but that’s what it take to get yourself to the next level. You have to stop doing certain things and. Open your mind up to new things that can be a stepping stone into the path of being successful. In my eyes Success comes with lessons not failures in when a person feels like they hit a stump on they path to being successful they feel like they life is over with but what don’t break you will mold you into a better version of yourself knowing this is what you signed up for so you gotta know that this path that we call success comes with ups and downs knowing what you striving for and believe in yourself everyday that you’ll be successful and put the work in consistently you will be successful, for some it happens fast and for others it takes longer then others but never lose that drive that feeling that gets you going everyday.
Chad, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
Well First off, I’m from Miami, Florida. I had moved to Atlanta at about 9-10 years old, I’ve always been interested in photography but not so much as to really pick up the camera myself at first, that wasn’t really on my mind like that. I honestly didn’t know what i really wanted to pursue as a career i mean i played football from middle school and all throughout HighSchool but in a way i know that wasn’t what i wanted to do either. I picked up my first ever camera which was a Nikon back in 2018 a little while after, My mother had gotten remarried. Before hand i was taking pictures of my mother and few of my friends off the phone so i decided one day why not just try an actual camera. So one night me and. my homeboys wen to a neighborhood to flick up and. The pictures were coming out clear and really good my friends also told me after looking at them that i should start taking it more seriously build a brand for myself and a business. One of my brothers gave me the name “Blocca” back in HighSchool so at first i went with “BlocSZN” but it didn’t really stick out with me so later on i changed it to what it is now and that’s “Blokkvisuals”. During 2019 I still wasn’t taking my Craft seriously i needed self motivation to actually wanna be the photographer/ creative artist that i know i can be. A. Little while into 2020 i had got caught up in some trouble what made it worse it was around the beginning of Covid. I reflect on it from time to time but everything happens for a reason partial of what happened i used it as self motivation to know that i am capable of so much more in life but sometimes i struggle with that because i always been a over-thinker thinking to myself “what if this doesn’t work out for me “? I never really felt like i was really good at anything to be honest not knowing what i can be remembered for doing while. Im still here. So in ways it puts me in a depression for a little which hardly anybody would know because am i private person and don’t really like expressing myself like that not even to the homies, my girl, or my own mother. I’ve always had to battle with my own mental because in a way i was being my own worst enemy, i wanted to use my camera as an extra “eye” because what i see and witness everyday you gotta wanna just take a picture and. Let the image do the talking. Like they said “A picture is worth a thousand words”. To me photography is a skill first then a form of art second, once you mastered the skill you can make it into your own form of art visions you see or imagine and. You just wanna put it out to life where it’s comes out even 10x better there is not better feeling than that. My Brand is still building and. I’m still working molding myself to be a better person along with being a great photographer. I like to create moments that will last for a lifetime and not just for that exact moment i want to leave a legacy that’s separates my form of art of photography from others but. I also take in the knowledge from photographers that been in the game and on this career path because it is an everyday learning experience. What i want people to know about me is that learn about photography everyday and every-time i pick up my camera i always wanna try something new create something new I’m here to bring my vision and the person I’m shooting with vision to life because everything in life is art not just people, animals, plants trees anything you can think of and bring it to life is art. And here’s one tip about me , i like to be called by my name or photography name, i do hate when some people refer me as the “cameraman”. What i do and what I’m pursuing I’m tryna leave a legacy behind my name and not the “cameraman” name.
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
First I was building my audience up by posting pictures that i have taken for free because you wanna show off how good you are with a camera at first before actually start getting paid for the photoshoots. Then i start doing some BTS showing the audience how i work with the client showing them how. I want them to pose or they show me how to pose it’s all a leaning experience knowing what the client want and what you want so it combines into helping each other. After most shoots or pictures i just wanna take i instantly start editing them but you gotta know if it’s a bad picture raw it’s not even gonna look better edited. I started doing some collages of each type of shoots i have done and. Promote it on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook etc. coming up with more concepts and ideas and. When i execute it and post them the words start spreading and i noticed when your doing something consistently and it’s comes out better and better every time more audience gonna come because now they’re in tune with the work I’m posting and showing off.
What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?
To me is to being able to create memories, and moments. We only have one life each moment that pass has to be captured on camera to me because that moment only comes around once. I love seeing the faces of clients knowing they put they trust in me to get the job done. Being able to say i took a photograph or something that’s going to last forever indoor just saying “i just took a picture nothing big” something that really meant a lot to me it’s more success the. To just getting paid of course i going to get paid in what i do but i also enjoy what i do for myself i grew to love photography in every aspect of it, it’s shows to me that there is more to life when you vision it they way you see the world already.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=23274188
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Image Credits
Honcho, Deanna, Dominique, Tyler, Amari and Ambryanna