There’s real value in hiring a photographer with diverse interests and life experiences. Brian Fitzgerald brings that to his clients, along with a creative eye and a passion for the use of light. I had the pleasure of interviewing him in his Portland studio in the artsy waterfront district.

As you’ll see in my interview with Brian, he has recently opened his own studio in Portland, Maine, where he does a wide variety of commercial photography. But he brings a background as a photojournalist with him, including a stint as an embed in Iraq; it was the newspaper life that brought him from a ranch in Arizona to Washington state and now to Portland.

I find when I interview artists, there’s always some passion of theirs that isn’t reflected in their official bio material. In Brian’s case, it was a mission to photodocument Native Americans, an interest sparked by his Arizona childhood. I don’t want to give away the details.

I had the good fortune of meeting his wife, who is also an accomplished professional photographer; they met in the newspaper biz and now she does her own studio work (she actually launched that before Brian took the leap). I’m also never surprised when I see two truly creative people choose each other as life partners.

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