Sam Klegerman is a 19-year-old Los Angeles based fashion photographer that started his professional career at the early age of 13. Beginning with the women’s clothing company, Brandy Melville, Sam quickly gained a social following on Instagram. He has now gone on to work & photograph for Playboy, Sam Edelman, Marchesa, BEBE, San Lorenzo, Alice + Olivia, LF Stores, Tavik, and many more. Sam is known for his self-styled shoots that incorporate bold colors and high energy. He is currently mastering his talent and working towards a BFA in Photography at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. He later wishes to move forward with his photography career, as well as opening his own modeling agency in Los Angeles.
Over the courses required in my first year, I contantly found a reoccuring theme of finding objects used in today’s society and modifying them to create modern art. From reworking jeans in studio to show a step by step antology for “How To Distress Jeans” and dismantling an Altoid Can and tranforming it into a modern “mail-able” piece of art. I truly enjoyed learning the key ideas and mastering the concept of antalogy and “mood boarding” to help myself as an artist build bigger ideas without limiting myself or the projects I wanted to create.
With all said and done this year, my one burning questions for the school, the world, and most importantly myself, is do I truly need an education to be succesful? Having a career in California and having the clientele that most people three times my age wish they could have, did I do the right thing by dropping it all for a degree?
Going forward I’d like to dive deeper into my 2-D mind and focus on discovering more skills on all Adobe softwares. Standing here, I can say im profficient in all the applications but I would like to further my knowledge and learn the “back doors” that are available for an artist like myself.