Brian Averill Photography

Venice, United States

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Portrait/​Commercial/​Action Photographer

Meet the Business Owner

Brian A.

Business Owner

It started at 9, when my mom gave me her old Instamatic and I began a series of what I believed at the time to be groundbreaking portraits of Midnight, our schizophrenic, overweight Siamese cat. I moved on to increasingly elaborate shots of my Star Wars figures, finding them far more cooperative and much less likely to eat my tuna sandwich.

A decade later, I wound up in the only place in America where this behavior is considered normal. Film school. A short was well received at festivals and I found myself directing second units (sunsets and cars) for B-​movie king Roger Corman.

I got lucky and directed two features. Both won big awards at small film festivals. All seemed to be going well, but as I continued to wade through the Hollywood development swamp, suddenly trying to attach lesser Baldwins to lesser projects, I realized just how much I missed that simple act of looking through the viewfinder and grabbing a moment. I dusted off the still camera and haven’t looked back since.