Live from the Mind Body Soul magazine spring release party in Solana Beach CA. I interview documentary photographer and social media manager Maria Russo. New York transplant and new to North County San Diego. Maria does documentary work and has been featured in National Geographic. She has an ongoing project in Rwanda. She is also IN the Spring Issue of Mind Body Soul. Photographed the cover girl Amy Van Liew. AND is photographing the Spring Release party.
Live from the Mind Body Soul magazine spring release party in Solana Beach CA. I interview documentary photographer and social media manager Maria Russo. New York transplant and new to North County San Diego. Maria does documentary work and has been featured in National Geographic. She has an ongoing project in Rwanda.
She is also IN the Spring Issue of Mind Body Soul. Photographed the cover girl Amy Van Liew. AND is photographing the Spring Release party.
First we did in on her Rwanda Documentary project. Going there since 2014 she anticipates her documenting it for the next 20 - 30 years. It’s about permanent garden projects that are spearheaded by a group of Rwandan women. Where they teach families how to grow organic food, medicinal herbs, planting trees etc. Sets them up to be self sustaining in times of crisis.
She is also a social media manager and happens to have my good friend Tom Kabbash of Saunt Eyewear as a client. Tom’s very particular. How did tom pick her!? She gives the answer.
With “a moody style” she’s drawn to “creating imagery with a lot of darkness and a little bit of light.” Both metaphorically and literally!
“Through the darkness comes light. So I do quite a bit of balancing with that.” “That’s what life is really like.”
Top three tips for a fledgling photographer/content creator.
See her work here:
On Instagram - @mariaaaugust
Or her website https://bio.site/mariarusso
See Tom’s 3D printed eyewear here - https://saunteyewear.com/
WATCH this episode here: Table Rush Talk Show.