Wrong Side of the Camera

I don’t get paid to do what I’d actually want to do all day. I’d be happy half-clothed, hanging around looking dumb, pushing a bike sometimes, pulling off my shirt when photographers like Joe Villanueva and Katie Stone tell me to. Kayslee Collins is 22 and that’s her literal job. And she gets paid for it.

The thing that gets me is there’s no path to it. You don’t study for this. You don’t grind toward it over years. You’re just young and willing to be half-naked in front of a camera, and that becomes a career.

So where did I actually go wrong? What choice did I make that landed me on this side instead of that one?