WINTER 2019
ISSUE 001
k c i r r e e d fresk
Derrick Freske photography by Jerry Maestas styled by Jerry Maestas interview by Caitlyn Hastings
Tell us a little bit about yourself, what’s your backstory? How’d you discover your passion for photography? I grew up in a small town in Michigan and I always had a passion for art. I would spend my childhood days doodling and doing arts and crafts. Besides those great flower photos I took on my flip phone, I really wasn’t introduced to photography until my sophomore year of high school. I decided to take a photography class because al somehow I already took all the other art classes offered at my school within a year and a half. I instantly fell in love with it and quickly found photography to be my favorite art form. My photography teacher saw potential in me early on and would always let me borrow the school cameras outside of class so I could keep practicing on my own time since I couldn’t afford a camera of my own at the time. Everything went up from there and I kept going above and beyond in class.