NEWS photo Brad Ledge

SINCE raduating in ’S3 from Emily Carr where she
misjored ic photography and mincred in ceramics, pho-

fonepnes' Reine Astra

Astra Medusa Mihtia has been attract-

me new ctlents with her award-winning photo book.

Photographer
wins award

Hopes honor will get her work

By Layne Christensen -

Community Reporter
TAKING a great photo
is only one part of being
"|. a successful photograph-
et:
- Knowing how to: market
yourself and your work is the
; other half of the picture.
Up-an and-comer Reine
Rai knows this well.
The 25-year-old North Van
resident recently returned from
New York where she picked up
an.award —- not for her work
but for promoting her work,
‘The contest was co-s
sored by Nikon and PI oto

District. News (PDN) maga- .

zine'and was open to profes-
sional. photographers from
across North America,

With the award came a full-
color.ad in the magazine val-
ued at: US$6,000, and a new
Nikon N9G' and 28- 70mm
lens.. Mihtla is hoping the
award will also bring business.

“Pm getting more and
more jabs each year,” said the
Emily Carr grad. “There's a lor
of interest in my work but
nothing comes immediately.”

Already she has gotten cails
from ‘a potential client in

~;fenosylvania and 3 stock
agency in Boston. Both com-
panies contacted her after see-
ing the notice of her award in
the Octaber issue of PDN.

Another call came from a

+--fhotographer who wanted fo
assist her but, said Mihtla, “:
this time I don’t need an assis-
tant.” What she does need is
work. That’s what the promo-
tion is for. And that’s why she
came up with her “id
She came up with its design
°92' while on scholarship at
s San Francisco Ari Instirute,
which counts as famous alumni
Ansel’) Adams and = Annie

Leibovitz.

It started with the idea of a

pop-up beok, bur Mihtla did-

n’t want to cut up her photos,
What she came up with was a
hand-bound photo book with
five stand-up images inside and
accordion binding “zhat makes
a cool kind of noise when
opened.”

“It’s a desk piece. It’s sculp-
tural. It’s meant to be played
with,” says its creator.

The design is simple — just
glue, string, cardboard, paper
and photos — and effective.
Her photo books helped land
her an assignment shooting
Elizabeth Taylor in Vancouver
last year and a job on a film set
in Munich in this coming
February. Her plans for the
future are ambitious: “I want
to do National Geographic,”
she said.

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