Mobile Photography Intimate Interview with Rosalie Heller from Baltimore, Maryland, United States

I thought I would love to teach young children. I also wished there were a profession for day dreamers and cloud watchers.

My first recognition was in 4th grade.  My 4th grade teacher was the first person ever in my childhood to validate me. She told me I had an innate talent and encouraged me to pursue art.  I loved her.

My first job was babysitting.

Public grade school.

I sold antiques, worked in a museum, was a local tour guide, had a massage practice..whatever paid the bills so I could support my children.

I attended Towson State University when my children started school and transferred to the Maryland Institute of Art to study photography under Richard Kirstel.  I never graduated for lack of funds.

I had two mentors. One was a dear friend Bruce Decker,  an exceptionally talented and sensitive photographer and printer.  My other great influence, and still to this day, Edward Weston.  I got lost in his images and learned a great deal about light and shadow.

I also spent a lot of time at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore to cure bouts of depression that followed me around during my teens.

I wish I had more energy. I’m always tired.

I value talent above all else but I think you also need lots of  courage to promote your work. I struggle with the word ambition.

I am intensely interested and vocal about todays’ political environment. I took part in the Womens’ March in Washington DC.  It was the most the most exhilarating experience!

Plane tickets to revisit India, and an iMac.

My biggest extravagance was botox ( don’t tell).

Being among trees in the forest or among the  red rock buttes in the American Southwest.  India is a close second.

I would love to exhibit in a gallery and to publish a soft cover of my work.

I just can’t stop shooting and editing. It’s my life line.  

My greatest achievement is having raised two remarkably strong and generous daughters.

I have no patience for people who aren’t curious about the world and other cultures.

Look at you kid!  You found your passion!

The items that my mom left to me.  They were taken when my house was burglarised.

The warming of our planet and learning to live together on this planet.

I believe that we live many lives.

8 working towards 9.

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