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Briahna "Bri" Patterson born in Wellington, New Zealand (July 8 1996). She is a Fashion, Portrait and Editorial Photographer who has at a young age of 16, appeared in many small events, shoots, online postings and articles that seem to be getting the word around about her and her amazing talent.

Life - The Beginning

Although her life is still young, the position she is in right now represents how she was brought up. Inspiration from artists, fashion design and journalism helped her think beyond the usual and creating spectacular works.

As a young girl Briahna attended a small populated primary school in the valley, she was arty as always, winning her first 'Top Arts Student' trophy award in the valley in 2007. Briahna attended her intermediate and first year of college at an expensive private school, even though she was never a fan of her school, she took on art and digital technology where she studied and let her creativity really kick in and prove herself. She won many distinction awards and was highly noticed for her talents there.

After disliking where she was, disliking the environment she was in both socially and academically, thinking there was no career she could really get out of the art, she was "stuck". Briahna had no clue creative-wise that could keep her motivated and passionate all throughout life to get known for what she loves, hopefully inspiring many others. She switched to playing guitar, tried singing, studying German and French, even architecture. Briahna saw there wasn't enough subject opportunities at her school. Soon enough she transferred to another school in 2010, for her this was a whole new start, another chance to prove her skills and think differently. Briahna never thought about photography until 2011, she was concentrating on the likes of architecture and graphic design thinking this was her big career move and goals for scholarship at a young age for university entrance.

Thinking this was where she was heading, an immediate trip down south changed her mind. She was tramping in the Queen Charlotte sounds for an outdoor schooling experience for the week. She took along a small camera, barely capable of taking any good shots and never thinking she would need to take a photo. Briahna was inspired by the beauty of the ocean, the yellow sands and pure glassy waves crashing at the shore lines. Briahna couldn't hide what she has seen from the world, keeping it in her head wasn't enough. It needed a visual picture for those to see at home. She says it was "too beautiful to keep as a memory for myself". This is the first time she felt she took a great photo and could show others without feeling embarrassed by the composition of the image.

This is when people became amazed of the images from down south. People loving what they saw, nothing edited and all natural. Stunned by what people thought and no one criticizing her, she decided to create a FaceBook Page named after her 'Bri Photography'. From then on, more people have come across her name, known around town and more pages have been opened like Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest and even her own website.

Career/Goals

Briahna plans to succeed in her schooling and pursue a wonderful and exciting career in fashion photography and design. She is currently working to her top standards at school, willing to highly succeed in her arts, computer, graphics and fashion design.

Briahna would love to continue on in the fashion and photography industries, her dream goals are to appear in Vogue and work under Vogue as a fashion photographer, journalist of stylist.

Photography

Briahna Specializes in fashion photography, apprearing on many feeds as she is a dedicated young photographer. Her work continues to improve over the past year from when she first began. Using only a digital, she has one awards on ViewBug - a photographer competition website, as well as PhotoVogue - an online portfolio on Italian vogue. She has recently been involved in Wellington Fashion week as well as many personal shoots, especially models from signed agencies and scouted her own models.