Marc addlerrman never had an all-con-suming desire to become a photographer.After majoring in journalism at the University of Florida-and discovering it wasn't for him-he found himself working for an event coordinator in Atlanta, where he met a young photographer who was shooting for the Davison's department store chain (owned by Macy's and eventually converted to Macy's stores). Even though he had no specific training in photography, Addleman started out making sets and backgrounds for this photographer, and eventually became fully immersed in learning the basics of the craft, from helping with props and styling to darkroom technique, loading and processing film. "I didn't have the knowledge that one day I would be a photographer myself," he explains. "I just thought this was a very cool job to have as a 20-something." But fate has a way of grabbing one's talent by the horns and directing it (albeit in a roundabout way) to one's final destination. Addleman did his time in Macy's darkrooms for a few years, then made the move to the Big Apple, where he toiled as a photography assistant. When he finally decided to make the leap from assistant to photographer, he had a couple of lucky breaks. He first nabbed a one-year gig photographing fourth-grade girls at a special educational initiative in Amagansett, Long Island; after that he worked as a producer in the fashion and advertising industry in New York, booking models and studios.
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