Rachel Canale is an impressive young woman who has been photographing since she was a teenager, and can now add Times Square Billboard, editing app, two photography businesses and over 1 million TikTok followers to her ever-growing resume. Rachel’s photography is intuitive and she has a real rapport with her subjects, able to shoot everything […]
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Friday night and fashion week in Melbourne is a glorious double dose of fun! Pen To Paper Media’s guest photographer for the evening, Rachel Canale, shot our favourite bloggers, models, stylists, industry legends and TV personalities as they enjoyed the VAMFF Plaza in action before stepping inside for Runway 5.
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1. HOW DID YOU BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY INTO PHOTOGRAPHY AND WHO WAS THE VERY FIRST PERSON YOU EVER TOOK A PHOTO OF IN YOUR CAREER AS A RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHER? My dad taught me how to develop and print my own images when I was 12. So that was over 45 years ago. I never […]
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1. WHAT SPARKED YOUR INTEREST IN PHOTOGRAPHY? Honestly, I can’t really remember. But I know that I had a very creative childhood and that I was always looking for an outlet that felt right. When I was 14, I took a class in photography and that was it. From then on I’ve been obsessed. […]
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1. YOU MOVED TO NEW YORK CITY IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES. WHAT INSPIRED YOU ABOUT THE CITY BACK THEN? I came to New York as an explorer. I didn’t know much about the city. I didn’t speak the language, didn’t know the culture or the fashion. I didn’t know about the sunny cold winters or […]
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Maripol with Madonna, whom she styled in the 80’s for her Like A Virgin era. 1. What was so enticing to you, as a young French girl, about America and especially New York? All the myths about America that I grew up with enticed me. From the music legends to the grandiosity of the city and […]
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How did your journey into photography begin? I started out as a textile designer at FIT. I was given a 110 Instamatic camera to make reference photographs of my friends that I wanted to paint. I liked the instant gratification of the photographic process, so I traded in my paintbrushes for a camera and started […]
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1. The caliber and breadth of your work is a steadfast display that proves the far reaching powers of photography. What is it about capturing a moment in history; a soul, a feeling, an environment or even a glance, that is so poignant and exhilarating for you? It is exciting to start off a day, […]
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