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Jay Farnworth is an NIZPP Accredited Professional Photographer and the owner of “Image Search� He is based in the Auckland Region of New Zealand.
Hi Jay! Can you please tell us about yourself, childhood, family, where you live and how you first got into photography? I spent my childhood growing up in Auckland [Grey Lynn in the 1980s and Northcote in the 1990s]. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 133 that my grandparents passed on to me. I remember how much fun my brother and I had just mucking around taking pictures. I have always associated cameras with excitement, enjoyment and a sense of curiosity. I wanted to be a news camera operator or work in the film industry so I studied TV and film production. I gained work experience at 3News which led to a role at Trackside TV. Work was sporadic for me as a young freelancer but fortunately my partner encouraged me and gave me the confidence to teach myself to shoot stills in order to expand my skill set. This also coincided with the availability of more affordable digital SLR cameras which meant I could experiment, lose the fear of failing, and learn without all the pressure and expense of shooting film. Hayley and I married in 2006 and she has been the biggest influence on my career, not only from a business perspective but also from a creative/design point of view being a designer herself.
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