Asia Kepka

The day I was born my grandmother cried.  

She had never seen such an ugly baby.

Many years later, when I became a mode,l a whole new world opened to me. When I landed in NYC 20 years ago. I arrived with $100 in my pocket and limitless enthusiasm. The moment I arrived at the airport I was handed my first point and shoot camera. Things were never the same.

I felt like a dog hanging its head out of the window of a fast moving car. With camera in hand and very little English, I embarked on a career as a photographer. I was lucky to start with the best clients imaginable: Wired, Time, Fortune, and the NY Times.

I am a girl with an enormous amount of imagination, creativity, and hunger for learning. I love shooting everything – from labor intensive productions involving a crane and an 8×10 camera, to doing a cover shoot of Bill Gates where I’m only give 90 seconds to do it, to emotionally charged stories that require patience and the gaining of someone’s trust. I can make people laugh but I can also sit down and cry with them.

My background in art (I studied set design at Polanski’s Alma Mater in Lodz) comes in quite handy – from making clothes to building sets- I am a one woman orchestra.

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You can see Asia's work here, in her studio in Boston, and at various galleries in New England.

You can buy her illustrated love story, Horace & Agnes at www.amazon.com