“Elvis has left the building…” — and somewhere after the stage lights went dark, a camera slowly took the place of the rabbit and the magician’s hat.

In this first part of my conversation with David duChemin, we explore the unusual path that took him from performing comedy shows, juggling bananas, and entertaining crowds… to becoming one of photography’s most thoughtful voices on creativity, storytelling, and finding your own way of seeing the world.

We talk about discovering photography as a teenager, building darkrooms in bathrooms, almost flunking out of English class before later becoming a bestselling author, and the moment a trip to Haiti completely changed the direction of his life.

Along the way, this becomes a conversation about much more than photography — curiosity, reinvention, fear, creativity, travel, and how sometimes the paths that make the least sense in the moment end up shaping us the most.

Stay tuned for part two next week, where we go even deeper into creativity, vision, fear, social media, and what it really means to find your own voice as a photographer.

Grab a coffee, settle in, and enjoy part one of my conversation with David duChemin.

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