In this third installment in our series of student artist profiles, Spec sat down with Colin Ross, CC '16, to learn more about him and his photographs, some of which have appeared in the Postcrypt Art Gallery.
Zoë Miller: How did you become interested in photography?
Colin Ross: I studied painting starting... more intensely in middle school, and then throughout high school, I painted at the Yellow Barn Studio in Maryland. I really enjoyed painting at my high school and at the studio, but I was curious about other media, I guess. I got a digital camera my sophomore year from my parents. I like digital photography, but that wasn’t exactly what I was looking for.
My junior year, my little brother and I found my father’s old film camera from the 1970s from when he took a film photography class in high school. My little brother Bryan and I cleaned it up and we got it back to mostly working condition. And just sort of through trial and error and experimenting, I’ve gotten really passionate about photography, I guess. Still, unfortunately, I have not taken a photography class, but I’m hoping next fall that will change.
ZM: What inspires you when you take your photographs?
