EVERYONE meet our shiniest contributor Beth Austin. Tell us about you! I've dabbled with photography starting in high school. A couple of decades later, I picked up the camera again, and photographed the people I was hanging out with, who were pretty interesting characters at the time. I had a few shows in 1999-2000, but life got in the way and I put the camera down again for another nine years. In 2010, I quit drinking. After about six months of not going out at all, there was a show I really wanted to go to at The Norva. I apprehensively went, and during the show I snapped a photo with my cellphone. It was a real epiphany, and I wondered why I hadn't brought a camera to a show before. That's when I fell in love with music photography and began to pursue it. It's a total rush, I love it. who's your artistic hero? There's many, but at the top of the list is Patti Smith. I saw her perform on Saturday Night Live when I was 12, and she was like nothing I had ever seen or heard before. It was the Saturday before Easter, so when she came out looking so androgynous, and sang, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine," it flipped a switch in my 12 year old brain. Up until then, what I'd seen as far as women performers go, were super chill, Carly Simon types. Patti Smith forever changed my way of thinking- she let me know we could be just as badass as the guys. What do you want to tell everyone about the VA/DC community? The thing I love about the area is there's just so much to do here- great food, art, and music. The music in particular just keeps blowing me away, and I honestly listen to more local bands than national ones. The music here is really just that good. read more from Beth at www.dominioncollective.com, follow her on Twitter and check out her other projects➡ ️http://www.bethshoots.com
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