About Me

My name is Amanda Schroeder. I am in grade 11 currently taking Photography 20. In my family I was the first of three girls. I have the role of big sister in my family. My sisters look up to me as a second mother. When my sisters and I were little, photography was introduced very early. We have tones of photo albums of my sisters and I on multiple vacations, at different family events and recreational activities. When I was 6 I got my first film camera. It was a cheap purple camera I got from my grandfather as a Christmas present. I remember using up the entire film that night just taking photos of anything I could. I first became interested in photography when I was little. I had multiple disposable and film cameras and took photos any chance I had. I currently own a canon digital camera. I use it as much as I can and bring it with me everywhere. I think photography is an every growing hobby of mine. Taking photos is essential to life, without it we wouldn’t be able to look back on the moments we love most. Photos can bring up memories good or bad, with each of those memories they could have been lost or forgotten without photography.

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Favorite Photographer - Julie Gang

Julie Gang is a children’s fashion photographer.  Julie gang grew up in Buffalo, New York. The seventh child of nine and the youngest of five girls, Julie loved to walk around with her film- less Brownie camera snapping “photographs” of everyone and everything. Inspired by children’s inhibitions, she began photographing children in high school. Having a large extended family with plenty of kid “models”, there was an instant comfort zone. She continued her photographic studies at Rochester Institute of Technology where she met her husband, still life photographer Jim Huibregtse. They have two children, Emma, and Clyde. They live in Tribecca New York City.
Julie finds that children are beautifully pure as subjects, and by working with them, she is able to bring her vision to fruition. A colleague once said, “I always know when I am looking at a Julie Gang photograph, because I can see Julie in their eyes.”
Pieces of her work