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9/30/11 9:32 AM

am Michelle Kim, and right now I am attending an international school in

interested in music as well, and bringing the two together would be an amazing experience for me. Doing these things would help me in getting closer to acquiring my dream of becoming photojournalist.

Seoul, South Korea. It is my goal to become a photographer and exhibit creativity and in life, that succeed will help

in documenting events

people understand, feel, and be inspired.

College Plans

Pinnacle of Career After building up to this point, I would love to end up

Starting Out

as a photojournalist. Although it will be a very competitive and challenging environment, I would like

Moving Along

to build up a reputation as being reliable and productive. I am perfectly content with not being the most well known photographer in the world or anything like that. I would be interested in traveling and documenting events, and I think I would be content with doing this until an old age. I would definitely want to invest in my own studio as well. When I feel like I am getting to be too old to travel or that it is time to retire, I will probably limit myself to not traveling, and work primarily in the studio.

Pinnacle of Career

College Plans I am not 100% sure yet, but I think I would like to attend a college in the U.S. with a strong arts background. I am interested in majoring in

Photography and minoring in Art History to help broaden my overall knowledge.

Starting Out I would like to end up interning at a professional photography studio. I could have a mentor and experience working for clients while obtaining a better grasp on photography in the real world. To get to that point however, I expect to have lots of small/odd jobs related to photography, including taking photo requests from family and friends.

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High School Degree College Degree Small jobs in photography Interning at a studio Freelancing / Music photography Working for a publication Established photographer

Moving Along In addition to interning at a studio, I would like to explore different areas of photography, preferably ones that involve more moving, as a freelance photographer. I want to try and intern for a magazine or publication of some sort. And it would also be very interesting to try to do band photography as I am very

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