Contributors RUDY AROCHA is a native Texan who moved to Austin eight years ago to pursue his education in fine arts as a sculptor. He later rediscovered his passion for photography when his grandfather gave him a camera as a gift. He now attends the Art Institute of Austin and is months away from graduating with a degree in photography. Rudy specializes in portrait photography with his main focus being musicians and artists. In his free time, Rudy enjoys music, the outdoors and spending time with his longtime girlfriend, Maggie. If there’s one thing you need to know about SADIE BARTON, it’s that she’s not a “professional” photographer. Rather, she’s a writer, a design-dabbler and a human with a passion for photography. She’s not a Photoshop whiz, she’s not masterful at crafting the most obscure yet weirdly meaningful photo shoots, but she loves what she does. And she loves it well. Having recently moved to Austin, she is elated to be surrounded by such an artistically nurturing community. Sentimental moment: over.
Mastelotto photo by Vic Napiorkowski.
ROBIN RATHER is a fifth-generation Texan and Austin environmentalist who wrote this month’s cover article out in the wide-open spaces of the Davis and Guadalupe Mountains. Rather served as a three-time chair of Save Our Springs, and was one of the founders of the Hill Country Conservancy, Envision Central Texas and Livable City. She is on the advisory board for the Sustainable Food Center and serves as the CEO of Collective Strength, a research firm that specializes in sustainability (collectivestrength.com).
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DEBORAH MASTELOTTO is a pathological entrepreneur with a lowboredom threshold, an obsessive remodeler, a minor student of quantum physics and an unapologetic observer of human nature. She opened Portfolio, her first salon in Austin in 1987, followed by Astarte and Pink. In 2009, she opened Pink West in a 100-yearold farmhouse, where she also hosts art openings and writing workshops. Deborah writes the horoscopes for Austin Woman as a research member of the American Federation of Astrologers. Find her online at pinkwestastrology.blogspot.com.
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