October’s Artist: Bruce Arnold (A Snapshot)

When did you first realize you wanted to be an artist?

My brother gave me his used 35 mm camera when I was 14 and I started first by taking pictures of landscapes and nature scenes.  Later I experimented by taking candid portraits of my friends and family.  Once I set up a darkroom in my parent’s basement and started to develop and print my own black and white images I was hooked. From that point I studied photography whenever I had time and planned to someday have a career in photography.