Meet Beloved Photographer & Author Fulfilling Her Dreams In Provence: Jamie Beck 

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Jamie Beck is an anomaly. At simply 13 years outdated, she took her first {photograph}, and by 28 years outdated, she opened her personal industrial pictures studio in Decrease Manhattan known as Ann Avenue Studio. Beck had constructed a burgeoning enterprise within the business, capturing campaigns and editorials for a few of the world’s high luxurious trend manufacturers and publications, resembling Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, and Vogue, and increasing into main tech firms, together with Google and Microsoft. As one of many unique trend photographers and “fashion bloggers,” Beck has been a number one artistic within the scene. 

Beck additionally invented a brand new method alongside her husband, Kevin Burg, known as the Cinemagraph—a dwelling picture that consists of a nonetheless {photograph} that incorporates a component of motion looped seamlessly to create a endless second. However over the course of her extremely profitable, bustling profession in New York, she could not shake one dream: to reside within the South of France. In 2016, Beck moved to Provence for what was to be a one-year sabbatical to create a private physique of labor. Six years later, it is secure to say France has grow to be her everlasting residence. In Provence, Beck has expanded her artistic physique of labor that now consists of her Provençal Self-Portrait collection and her 2020 #IsolationCreation collection, the place she created a bit of artwork day by day and inspired others in isolation to do the identical.

Most not too long ago, Beck has compiled her dynamic repertoire—from images and private essays to posing ideas and French recipes—right into a e book: An American in Provence. Take heed to the most recent episode of Second Life to listen to how Beck pivoted her profession as a industrial photographer in New York into that of a tremendous artist and writer, all spurred by following her lifelong dream of transferring to France.

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