From Filmmaker to Still Moments

Gayle Kirschenbaum
7 min readApr 12, 2020

How I Launched My Career as a Fine Art Photographer

Self portrait — circa 1979 — Copyright Gayle Kirschenbaum

“That’s a crap shot,” Dad said looking at my 8 x 10 black and white photograph I shot of people in the distance walking away.

I was eager to share with my parents my photos I had not only shot but developed and printed in the darkroom in school.

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Gayle Kirschenbaum

Emmy award winning filmmaker, TV producer, TED speaker, writer, photographer with a wanderlust. Teach forgiveness as seen in my film LOOK AT US NOW, MOTHER!