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Originally hailing from Toronto, Canada,\xa0Michelle Groskopf is a Los Angeles based photographer.\xa0Her work is a mix of photo journalism, portraiture and street photography.\xa0She holds a BFA\xa0in film and video production from the School\xa0Of\xa0Visual Arts in New York where she also taught as an adjunct professor in the graduate film and video dept.\xa0She is a member of the celebrated flash photography collective Full Frontal Flash. Michelle is dedicated to empowering youth through photography and education initiatives working with the Lucie Foundation,\xa0Educare\xa0and Youth Arts to inspire the next generation of photographers and artists. Her work has been shown around the world and featured in publications such as The British Journal\xa0Of\xa0Photography, American Photo, The Huffington Post, Vice Magazine and It\u2019s Nice That, among others.\xa0Her clients include, Refinery 29, Bloomberg Businessweek, Vice Magazine, Marie Claire\xa0France,\xa0Aftenposten, and Stern Magazine.\xa0Her first monograph is being published by The Magenta Foundation and will be released in the fall of 2017.\xa0

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Making thematic work
• Her early life/work as a filmmaker and producer
• How she became a photographer
• Visual iconography
• Outside forces polluting ideas
• Her experiences living in Hollywood
• The path of least resistance
• Physical and emotional stress
• Larry Sultan
• Thinking about life as a marathon as opposed to a sprint
• Changing the idea of success
• Romanticizing the artist lifestyle
• Seeing the light at the end of a dark and hopeless tunnel
• Looking at other mediums of art for inspiration
• Over intellectualizing artwork
• The \u201cFull Frontal Flash\u201d photography collective
• Finding a community

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