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

Nyasia, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

My parents supported me from a young age. They bought me my first camera at the age of around 8 when then first noticed my interest in taking pictures. From then, they got me an upgrade every year for Christmas until I got my Cannon camera in middle school. My mom also advised that I should try out the photography program in high school. From then, I only grew more in love with my passion.

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?

Right now, I’m really just doing photography for fun and for people who want their photos taken here and there. I’ve always love photography though, ever since I was around 8 years old. That’s when I got first camera. I always got a sort of joy from taking pictures. There was always something satisfying about catching beautiful moments, especially in nature. I honestly just love to take any chance I have to snap a picture. I’ve tried multiple fields of work to see if they would better suit me, but photography always gave me this certain fulfillment that I couldn’t feel with other jobs. I just know in my heart that I am truly a photographer.
I’ve had a few jobs editing photos. Some were paid and some were for free. I was just happy to get the practice I needed to become better at my craft. I love opportunities to learn and brush up on my skills.
I think what I’m most proud of is my growth. I really learned to think outside of the box and view the world in a new light when taking and editing photos. I didn’t really think to edit pictures. I kind of just took them and moved on. I also didn’t really practice techniques and strategies as o should have. I was a bit naive as a kid, but with a few classes and training, I believe I’ve come a long way.
At the end of the day, all I can honestly say is I’m just doing what makes me happy. They say if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. I mean, there’s hardships, but the challenges can sometimes make the job more interesting and in some cases even fun.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I want to eventually own my own studio. After I’m done with college, I want to get a job as a photographer’s assistant so I can learn from them and have an example to guide me in the right direction. I want to move on after and work with a business such as photographers for kids school pictures. I just find school pictures so adorable! I want to make sure those kids get the best picture and not end up like my pictures back in the day lol. But after I feel like I’ve had enough training and experience I’ll open my own studio or even become a traveling photographer.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to unlearn that I had to be perfect. Nobody told me I had to be, I just assumed I did. It’s an idea I beat into my own brain. I was often discouraged because my peers in high school seemed to be doing better than me. But I had to learn that 1.) my pictures won’t always be perfect and not everyone will like them. And most importantly 2.) photography is an art and everyone has a different art style. Just because my pictures don’t look like someone else’s, that doesn’t mean they’re not good. There was a quote I learned from instagram that I love: “Just because you don’t look like somebody who you think is attractive doesn’t mean you aren’t attractive. flowers are pretty but so are Christmas lights and they look nothing alike.” Yes it applies to people, but I was able to apply it to my craft, too. Not all beautiful things look alike. And that’s okay.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: images.by.ny
• Email: nyasiawhite.photography@gmail.com

Image Credits
My personal photo was taken by Jack Cannon Photography