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As a little girl living in New York, Janette Pellegrini was sad when she found out that her play camera didn’t take real photos. Going through school she always had a camera on her, and was highly involved with her school’s newspaper. It was then, that her mom suggested that she take up a career in photography. Janette Pellegrini decided to take her up on it, and headed over to college to learn to become a professional photographer.

Even while in college, Janette Pellegrini had a part time job working at a 30 minute photo store. Though once she got out of college, she found that working a normal 9-5 desk job / photographer was not the life for her. On the first day of her brand new full time job as a photographer, she got a phone call to go do a photo shoot for one of her favorite bands. She decided to ditch work to go do the unpaid shoot, and never looked back. Within a week she had removed herself from the strings of a full-time position to freelance permanently.

Along the way she has had to deal with many of the pitfalls of freelancing. Included in that is a steady pay check and scheduling issues with friends and family. Another issue that Janette Pellegrini had to deal with was the fact that she was not well equipped for the digital era that was just getting started as she exited college. So, being behind the eight ball, she had to learn most of what it takes to survive in the digital age on her own, and she feels she is made better for it. By knowing the analog process of photos, she understands photography at it’s core, but admits a class on digital photography at the very least would have been nice.

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