David Schrott

www.davidschrott.com

The year is 1988 and the month is June. Newly fascinated with the sport of basketball, a just-turned-eight-year-old pleaded with his mother to let him photograph his favorite players on TV with her Kodak 110 camera. Reluctantly she said "Yes", already knowing the outcome: a roll full of empty TV screens.

Fourteen years later, after wandering the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western Carolina the aforementioned now twenty-two year old decided to try again his hand at making images on light-sensitive silver - this time with better cameras and proper training. His journey landed him along the Hudson River studying in the surreal world of fashion and editorial photographer Rodney Smith.

Upon finishing his education under Smith, he spent the next three years drinking only coffee and eating only chocolate while galavanting across the American Midwest, photographing Iowan corn-farmers, Diner waitresses and Olympic athletes along the way.

To-day, David is a commercial photographer near Philadelphia, going where ever his camera will take him.