CNielsen Photography

Photography – Omaha

Hi! My name is Chelsea, and I\'m a portrait/fashion/concert photographer/videographer. I graduated from Metropolitan Community College with my degree in photography in May 2012. At the age of ten, disposable camera in hand, my first models for my very first photo shoot were my younger brother and sister in our living room with two chairs holding up a broom with a sheet tossed over it for a background. Ever since then, I have never put my camera down. I always had a camera with me, disposable, digital, or even just a cell phone camera, taking pictures of anything and everything. Then, my senior year of high school, I realized photography was my niche. It was something I was good at. Art has always been important to me, whether it was drawing, painting, dancing, singing, sculpting or photography, it has always been my release, my way to forget about my anxiety and my depression. And with photography, I was finally being connected to people. I had a way to talk to people. I was making friends again, connecting through a lens. Photography is one of the most important things in my life. I am able to create other worlds. Some people photograph to document, I photograph to create an illusion. I don\'t want to show people the world they already see, I want to show people the world I see. After all “We don\'t live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions,” (Gerald J. Simmons).